In her 2007 interview for the "Point of Inquiry" podcast, when asked, "Do you think religion might actually be harmful for one's happiness?", she said, "Yes ... when I wrote "Doubt" it was very much to show people who felt that doubting religion or getting away from religion was painful. I find the world in which the natural world that we see the world, in which we make up no other, I find that world to be the best one. I'm glad there's no afterlife. I like the world as it is. And I think that religion does add a tremendous amount of guilt and pain and trouble." Hecht does not, however, believe that religion is all bad. In that same interview, she went on to say, "The beautiful building and coming together and reminding oneself of community, of how we must each take the role that is given us, know yourself, remember death, control your desires, these are the big messages of wisdom. And religion got it right that you have to meditate on them for them to work."