If one fact is certain about religions it is that over time people's attitudes to them change. As knowledge of the Earth sciences and the cosmos expands, old beliefs wither and die, and this process is accelerating. A good example of such disruptive change was the advent of Darwinism but far greater disruption beckons, though we cannot be sure of the precise paths it will take.
Religions have survived for millennia partly because people, even in this scientific age, still need stories, the kind on which all religious beliefs are built, even though such stories are fictional with no evidence to show for their veracity. Many people today still pay lip service to religious rituals, a practice that Governments are in no hurry to discourage because of its useful, controlling element, especially in times of national crisis. And who could not be enthralled while in a beautiful cathedral listening to Handel's Messiah?
But the big question now is that given the things to come that will be far more momentous in their thought disruption, can we expect religions to be made redundant, if not also the belief in a Universe creator?
To encapsulate, there is no doubt that technology will enable humanity to engineer bodies, brains and minds so that we can no longer be certain of anything. There are dangers in such developments, like a tiny, super-rich elite exploiting these new technologies to control the vast majority of the dispossessed under class. But whether it happens or not the point of the story is that manipulative stories and control mechanisms, perhaps a la Brave New World, will make it possible to consign religious thoughts, beliefs and practices to the ashcan of history. Now that does not, of course, mean that a Universe God-creator does not exist but is does mean that all religions built on stories, fables, etc, could be erased.
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