Elimination of religion means not just the marginalization of religion, but its complete and irreversible discrediting amongst all potentially cohesive groups. The primary obstacle to the itreversible discrediting of religion is the fact that someone will always benefit from keeping other people gullible and stupid through superstition, and gullible and stupid people are easy to form into cohesive groups.
While religion might be a sign of the failure of enlightenment to penetrate, perpetuating of religion could also easily be the work of those who are most ruthlessly enlightened about their own social, political and economic interests.
So no, I don't think human social dynamics favor the elimination of so proven a tool as religion.
While religion might be a sign of the failure of enlightenment to penetrate, perpetuating of religion could also easily be the work of those who are most ruthlessly enlightened about their own social, political and economic interests.
So no, I don't think human social dynamics favor the elimination of so proven a tool as religion.
