Progress...

[Zenith]

You can't do away with all religion. It's a pipe dream. Best we can hope for is a few thousand more years of educating the masses.

How exactly would you do that? And what that education would be like?

We just keep doing what we're doing. Change nothing, save one thing ... stop teaching religion.

I expected a more... specific, and more detailed explanation (like a plan or something). For instance, how exactly would you stop teaching religion? How would that education be like? you mean showing everywhere the flaws of religions, or what exactly does this "education" mean to you? And you would educate them in schools, using the TV, or how?

I hope I'm not annoying you. I'm only curios of the methods you think of.

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On a personal level, I am sufficiently smug to know that all the religious are going to be bitterly disappointed when they die and that's it.

Fairytales will never die. Instead, they will only be replaced with other ones. If you think about the modern religions (satanist religions like the church of satan; wicca; Kabbalah; Scientology, etc.) which are also full of fairytales and are modern (based on science - some even use that word as the foundation of the institution) then it is not hard to imagine that even before the old religions die (if they would indeed die) others will already take their place, and you'll have one fairytale replaced by another - big deal.

By the way, Kabbalah does not call itself as "religion": I have once read from a site of theirs "Kabbalah is not a religion, it is a science of reality", or something like that (the funny thing is that any religion would call itself as a science of reality) - but from what I've read about them, both Kabbalah and Scientology fit very well in that category. In Kabbalah, for instance, it is taught that a man, with his mind can split the waters of a sea in two and stuff like that.

As about Scientology, read this:

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Scientology beliefs revolve around the thetan, the individualized expression of the cosmic source, or life force, named after the Greek letter theta (θ).[88][89][90] The thetan is the true identity of a person – an intrinsically good, omniscient, non-material core capable of unlimited creativity.[88][89]

In the primordial past, thetans brought the material universe into being largely for their own pleasure.[88] The universe has no independent reality, but derives its apparent reality from the fact that most thetans agree it exists.[89] Thetans fell from grace when they began to identify with their creation, rather than their original state of spiritual purity.[88] Eventually they lost their memory of their true nature, along with the associated spiritual and creative powers. As a result, thetans came to think of themselves as nothing but embodied beings.[89][91]

Thetans are reborn time and time again in new bodies through a process called "assumption" which is analogous to reincarnation.[88] Like Hinduism, Scientology posits a causal relationship between the experiences of earlier incarnations and one's present life, and with each rebirth, the effects of the MEST universe (MEST here stands for matter, energy, space, and time) on the thetan become stronger

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And these are modern (i.e. newly appeared) religions! Imagine other people starting with aliens or who knows what.

Point is: I don't see a big difference between muslims who say "at the end all will be muslims", the christians who say "in the end all will be christians" and atheists who say "In the end all will be atheists". It's just great desire and fantasy to all of them (that's my strong personal opinion).