A Whoa Moment, A follow up

The same student from my last post spent this morning in homeroom, when he was supposed to be doing his silent sustained reading, debating the existence and purpose of religion. His argument was that religion only existed to give scared people something to hang onto because they don't understand what's going on in the world, and that sometimes people in power take advantage of religion to get people to do what they want, but that he doesn't think there's actually some kind of higher power. Religious debate aside, I feel as though I may be teaching Karl Marx reincarnated. Seriously though, wherever this student came from, I want more of him.