Religions future in the world...

[Whateverist]

The more things change, the more they remain the same. Religion probably isn't going anywhere. But if it does, I'm fine with it. Hopefully it will be because it becomes everyone's best hunch that gods don't exist. Would hate to think of anyone coerced into swapping the tyranny of their parent's religion for someone else's mind-jail. Don't expect to see this happen in my lifetime.

[The Grand Nudger]

Meh, religion isn't going to go away..it's just going to continue changing, as it has been doing since we first dreamt it up.  Personally, I hope that religion takes a different road as it continues to change from this point forward.  A tolerant and welcoming faith, an honest faith divorced from grand claims of knowledge, a faith which invests itself in fact, rather than denies it.  This, imo, is the direction faith is headed -kicking and screaming-, and it's a good direction.  The type of faith that my children's generation (and perhaps even one of my children) will hold will not be the faith of their fathers.  Simply never -has- been.  

Faith will continue to be with us, the question isn't so much what role it will have, as it is...what sort of faith can fulfill the role that it -already has-.

[Whateverist]

Would it help if we called it "the force" instead of faith?

[The Grand Nudger]

It might, it might....if people took it a little less seriously on account of that you've got my vote.

[Mr Greene]

Humans being the emotional, non logic driven animals we are will always have some element of religiosity within them.
Christianity is dying despite some attempts to modernize it. I fear as it dies it will become more extremist and violent but this won't really affect the outcome.
Secularism vs. Islamification is already an on-going conflict though I suspect that Secularism will ultimately emerge victorious as muslims ultimately benefit from engaging with reality and will be incapable of dealing with dissent in their own ranks.

[Salacious B. Crumb]

As long as there are human beings, or a species capable of thinking so abstractly and creatively, religion will never leave this planet. If I had to guess, in about 100-200 years, I’d say religion will still populate 30% of the world. I think, there still will be many areas of the world that won’t be modernized, and with how much this species breeds, I’d say it could easily be 30% of the world. By that time, in modernized cities, I’d say that the religious population will max out around 10%.

I predict that earth’s population will be about 50% atheist.

[Won2blv]

Is there any scenario where religion becomes banned even in western cultures?

[Whateverist]

I hope not. That has never worked out well.

[robvalue]

You could only ban organised religion, and I doubt this would ever happen (while we remain civiilized). There should be no need to. I only see its special treatment being lessened.

[Alex K]

Religion: do you expect me to adapt to 21st century values?

Godfinger: No, religion, I expect you to die!