My hypothesis on the current future of religion.

[Jenny A]

I'm less optimistic about the death of organized religion. They feel under attack and therefore hunker down and get more radical. They avoid education or simply avoid unpleasant facts.

[drfuzzy]

Reminds me of some of the ACE curriculum materials (Accelerated Christian Education) that teach creationism . . . 



And among the comments to this meme, a typical Christian response: "My kids will inherit heaven while yours burn in hell! We the believers will inherit heaven. Your silly science will guarantee you hell!"

[Cecelia]

You don't know how many people I've heard say "Teach both theories and let the kids decide!"

Reminds me of this image:





I'm so really glad that I don't teach world history.  Though teaching World War II I've had to deal with my share of parents who deny the holocaust or don't like Japanese Internment being taught.

[Spooky]

I sincerely doubt the "end" of religion as we know it is even as close as 150 years away.

Sad.

[Fake Messiah]

I am very inspired by Star Trek on this and I think that religion will cease to exist in the world where money is not important anymore, because until then you will always have people spreading their false propaganda and suckers that will fall for it. I mean just look at Xtians and their denominations they're everywhere spreading lies on radio and TV and some people just listen to them and no one else. For instance when James Randy exposed Peter Popoff it took 6 months for people to get the news because they don't follow regular channels since they consider them immoral. Even then there are people that still believe even in Uri Geller because there are disinformation that he is indeed real and masonic leaden media is lying.
And how do we get that society? Perhaps by developing nuclear fusion?

So maybe in a world where science is even more important will perhaps stimulate people more to get interested in science, because most people have intelligence somewhere on the same level but it is motivation that lots of people are lacking. For instance math is for most people useless and consider it as something that you only need to know if you want to be a math teacher, but imagine if we were living in the world where spaceships flew in the skies, people were discovering evolution of life forms on other planets and so on, where science enabled people not to waste their day working for heat and food but to think (just imagine that world would be ridden of crime almost completely) then almost everybody would be motivated to know more.

[houseofcantor]

I qualify as both highly intelligent and highly educated, and I'm a prophet. 

Ain't ever going to go away, religion, but I'll agree that organized religion needs a kick in the nutsack.