So long as there are gaps that need filling there will be imagined gods to fill them. Humans hunger after the sense of being special, being chosen... We want meaning to be handed to us on a plate, rather than having to define it ourselves.

One of the main roles of reason is to poke at absurdity, as well as demand that any assumed authority presents its credentials. The ice upon which religion stands, is steadily melting. Ridicule is the strongest weapon in our arsenal, and we do the believers no favors by not using it!

Good question with open answers. . .

If you mean religion on earth, Yes. There will be a time when this planet is no longer capable of sustaining life. At that time I am rather sure there will be no religion on earth.

If you are asking if our civilization will outgrow religion? I don't know.

If you are asking if religion for humanity will disappear, probably. Based on our current political/science (lack of) vector, I don't anticipate our species moving to a different planet.

Religion will become increasingly marginalized to the point where I think it will eventually be of marginal to no relevance. My estimate on that is about another thousand years, give or take.

The reason is that reason will gradually help people to understand critical thinking, logical fallacies, and the need to push back against the known weaknesses of human thought. As more and more people have an increasingly accurate mental model of reality that they are practiced in living by, they will have better outcomes and more readily see the failed nature of religious faith as a viable epistemology.

But that's going to take a shit-ton of time.

Of more short-term importance is that the more extreme, authoritarian and destructive forms of religion are currently thrashing around in a panic as they lose their grip on political and economic and psychological power. So while it will take a long time to be free of religion generally as a coping strategy with any perceived value, it will take less time -- potentially a LOT less time -- probably another 3 or 4 generations -- for the real religious nutters to become irrelevant. The open question for me (or, really, for my [grand]children) is whether or not we will take an expensive detour through a dystopian nightmare of some kind before we get there.

religion will cease when our earth time is up and the latest from the scientists is approx. 5 million years from now. based on a recent conversation with tyson and krauss

I hope that religion will become a very marginal view But truly I don’t think it will ever be eradicated. Human frailty and weaknesses I fear will always provide a vehicle for the “easy out” that religion provides

I think yes, when we have no need for it. The key to this, undoubtably is to educate girls!

I doubt it! If people are unable to see that the world and the universe is probably unknowable,there seems to be a desire to fill in the blanks.This is done in a number of ways,one of which is god &religions. Myself ,living in Utah, have been exposed to a very strange religion(mormonism). they believe in stuff that I find comical.However the people are nice and they appear to be happy. It's like what my grandmother told me a long time ago . She said you can tell a child there is no Santa Claus and they might even believe you, but they won't like you for sharing that .

Nope. There will always be people terrified of death, and parasites who exist to feed off those who’ll pay them to tell them what they want to hear.

I do hold out hope that maybe one day it will be marginalized. But that feels like a looonnggg way away

People seem to be unable to resist obeying what they consider to be a higher power.

The famous Milgram social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, measured the willingness of study participants from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal consciences, including killing another human being, and all of them did it. All.