Defending Religion

Last time in class we were suppose to defend religion against Freud's attacks. What surprised me was that no student purposed the possibility that a religion might be true, that there might be a transcendent reality. Surely there is at least one student in the class who believes in a transcendent reality. By the way I'm not sure that term "transcendent reality" has been defined well enough but I will use it for lack of a better term. Probably no one purposed this because they were afraid of attack or ridicule. Discussing what is scientific and discussing what might be are two different discussions. However, I believe it is possible to approach spirituality in a scientific way, though not in a way that is likely to satisfy most skeptics.