Kipling's Religion

For "Kiplingites" (see, to use a term of Kipling's, "Janeites"): John Derbyshire speculates, giving two intriguing, epigrammatic, but ultimately baffling quotes.I always thought he was a Mason.

Derb: "He described himself in 1908 (i.e. at age 42) as "A God-fearing Christian atheist."

And, in Kipling's own words: "All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells."