Religion is really questioned by many people today. Is there a relationship between morality and religion as many followers of religion say? Or is religion a tool to exempt us from the human condition and reality as atheists defend? Unlike the usual atheists, who completely reject God and religion, there are people who still believe in religion but not in God; the writer George Eliot is one of them. Contrary to most atheists, George Eliot argues that religion is necessary to be morally correct. Furthermore, this morality must be achieved without the influence of belief in God. This religious belief is a frequent topic in Eliot's works, especially in Silas Marner, in which the main character evolves spiritually thanks to events that challenge his vision religious. In his youth, George Eliot followed his family's evangelism. However, "he abandoned his faith because of his scientific studies and the German 'higher criticism' of the Bible, which considered it a historical and non-sacred text" (Maitzen, 2012). Furthermore, he studied Feuerbachian philosophy, which strengthened his new religious vision. Like Feuerbach, Eliot thought that "God" was not an external being but a projection of our best qualities. Feuerbach maintained that “religion is the relationship of man with his fellow men, but considered as another nature, a separate diction, indeed opposed to reason and morality; here lies the harmful source of religious fanaticism, the main metaphysical principle of human sacrifices, in a word, the prima materia of all atrocities, of all horrible scenes, in the tragedy of religious history" (The Essence of Christianity). So, according to them, God is the element that breaks the natural flow of religion towards good, and for... by means of paper... readers, to understand and empathize with Silas Marner's characters. Works CitedCarroll , David. “DAVID CARROLL: Reversing the Oracles of Religion.” George Eliot. The Floss Mill and Silas Marner: A Casebook. London: Macmillan, 1977. Page no. Print.Eliot, George and Terence Cave. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. Print.Feuerbach. "Essence of Christianity". Essence of Christianity. Np, nd Web. 06 June 2014.Maitzen, Rohan. "Look Back No More: George Eliot and Atheism." Los Angeles Book Review. Np, 5 October 2012. Web. 06 June 2014. Purkis, John Arthur. A preface to George Eliot. London: Longman, 1985. Print.Zhang, Liang and Lingqin Zeng. "A Moral World Without God: On George Eliot's Religion of Mankind in Silas Marner." Theory and practice in linguistic studies 3.3 (2013): n. page Network. 06 June 2014.