I have come to the conclusion that religion is a necessary part of being human. I've been an atheist my whole life and spent a great deal of it being an anti-theist and was delusional to think that one day we'd have an atheist majority world. This will NEVER happen. First of all, a percentage of the world's population have IQs so low that they would be considered borderline retarded in the West. You can see that the higher average IQ a country has, the less religious it is. The lower average IQ a country has, the more religious it is. But intelligence aside, religion will never die because people are tribal by nature, and the more civilized and modernized we become, the only thing that we will have to connect us to our "tribe" is religion. People are becoming more anti-social as time goes by and losing a sense of community. Religion is the only thing that gives people a sense of community and a feeling of being part of something great than themselves. You can also see this happening with leftists nowadays. They've replaced religion with far left politics and social justice activism. They treat their political beliefs as if they were a religion, and this is because they are empty inside. They do not have religion. They do not have community. Their politics are the ONLY thing that give them a sense of purpose and a community to belong to. I don't think humans will ever reach a point where they do NOT feel the need to belong to a community that makes them feel like they are part of something greater than themselves. This makes me sad, but I finally accept this truth. Humans need religion, or they will replace it with something else (e.g. politics in the case of leftists). I don't need religion personally but I do long for a community. What do you guys think?