When I was very young, I believed in god, the tooth fairy, and santa claus. Then I found out that 6 million Jews were murdeered by the Nazis and some religious leaders explained that sinning brought about punishmenbt for them. Then I leanred that one million children were destroyed during the Holocaust and they were too young to have sinned. What Wiliam James said "back then" might have been wise back then but has been modified. What was said during the Renaissance about witches and angels on pinheads has been modified. And back and back. There is not just evolution that is physical. There is cultural evolution too. In the best democracy the world has yet known there was a time, very recently, when slaves and women could not vote. That too has changed. I expose my children too all sorts of views but  do not continue to insist on god as walt whitman, angels, hell, the tooth fairy, or the need for special interest groups hanging out around the halls of congress.