Religion is evolving

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I think it's almost all down to outside pressure. The gulf between scientific knowledge and simplistic fairy tale explanations is getting larger all the time. Those already totally brainwashed won't notice, but new generations will. The religions (where outright violent enforcement isn't an option) have to give some pretense of bridging that chasm or be lost into obscurity.

They're not far off calling the whole of their holy books metaphorical already, because of the increasingly obviously incorrect nature of their narratives.