People who are not religious often suppose that to be religious one must suppress one’s intellect, or critical apparatus, and accept without question everything one is told by those to whom one has granted, say, ecclesial authority, when really what one must do, at least in Catholicism, is learn how to modulate one’s intellect in such a way that it does not operate tyrannically, or unilaterally, but in concert with one’s faith, without which there is no expression of true or ‘living’ virtue.