239. From what we have now said, it follows that where religion is lacking, conjugial love does not exist either; and where conjugial love does not exist, coldness develops instead. It may be seen in no. 235 above that coldness in marriage is the absence and loss of that love. It follows by the same token that coldness in marriage is also the absence or loss of a state of the church or of religion in a person. Sufficiently corroborative evidence of this may be inferred from the general ignorance today regarding truly conjugial love. Who today knows that the origin of conjugial love in a person stems from religion? Who today is even willing to acknowledge it, and who today would not be surprised by it? But this circumstance is owing altogether to the fact that although religion exists, its truths do not; and what is religion without truths? (We showed in full in The Apocalypse Revealed that these truths are lacking. See also the narrative accounts there in no. 566.)