Religion won’t disappear because there is a component for rational order… and there is a component to belief. The need to find patterns is inherent to our nature… the need to understand what surrounds us.
When critical faculties or skepticism are not championed in a society, our ability to dissect our surroundings becomes limited, and we become mentally lazy. Our capacity for belief in lieu of understanding… and our willingess to assume… far belies our ability to be mentally patient and critical.
In the end we are still impetuous, emotive, humans. It will take some time, but forms of belief will never disappear entirely. It isn’t human nature.
To rise above our myopic, assumptive, tribal close mindedness…. that is the true core and beauty of what human nature can become.