I seriously doubt religion can be realistically vanquished in the next few centuries... Unless humans manage to entirely destroy themselves.. which may not be a desirable outcome.

I don't think it would ever be possible to get rid of religion entirely as long as we have people willing to indulge in fairy tales.

Religion isn't a thing that can be "got rid of." People will or will not grow out of it individually. When enough people have grown out of religion, and awoken to the realization that they don't need a supernatural guide to lead a moral life, they'll stop trying to indoctrinate their children and proselytize others. At some point religions will starve to death. But not until after a long struggle on their part for relevance and influence.

You can see Christianity struggling for relevance in the Western world as we speak. The more educated the audience, the less attention they tend to pay. It's among the less educated and especially in the poor nations that religion still has the most influence.

I'm convinced that the wealthy and educated who profess to great religious feeling for the most part are simply bowing to convention, and in the worst cases are cynically manipulating religion to sway those who don't know better. Certainly a minority are deluding themselves and do believe in religious fictions, but they haven't seriously examined those beliefs, or else they've mastered the cognitive dissonance required to do so while simultaneously knowing things like physics, history and elementary geography.

Over and over through history people have made up stories of all-powerful beings to explain the things they don’t understand. I think there always will be, though hopefully fewer as humans have better explanations for things.

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