What is this?
-- a kite
What holds it up?
-- the string
The string holds the kite up?
-- Yes, because if you drop the string, the kite will fall to the ground.
So, the string holds the kite down to earth, but also keeps allows it to soar up to the sky?
--Yes, just as our religon, laws and ethics hold us down, they also allow us to soar to great heights.