Faith vs Religion

I am quoting for your benefit, a very well written letter in USA TODAY in the letters to the editor section by Jonathan Horner of Newport. Tenn., on the difference between faith and religion :
"...Religion is not faith. Faith involves unanswered questions, religion is belief in answers formulated by mankind. Unfortunately, these formulations are made without understanding essential questions, and in practice fundamentalism discourages asking deeper questions.
Religious texts should be read as poetry, rather than as a direct statement in prose. This is the difference between a symbol and what the symbol represents. Science is entirely compatible with faith. Religion, conversely, claims to know the future, which is convenietly soothing to those who adamantly and insecurly cling to their egos and wish them to have everlasting life"