Do you think that one day religion will become a thing of the past

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I've even heard the argument that the advancement of sciences by Newton, Kepler and Galileo was because of their belief in a creator.

Newton, by all accounts, even was a fundamentalist. But that doesn't change the fact, they were, for the most part, persecuted by religious authorities. Keppler wasn't. I even have to leather bound calendaries from 1647 and 1649 with a preliminary by Johannes Keppler. My father found them when he was setting up shop right after the war.

But that aside. I would add what I always say when this is asked. I don't even think, it's desirable for religion to vanish. The void would be filled by some other unknown ideology. Many people always look for direction. What I wish for is fundamentalist religion to vanish, since it mostly does harm. Not belief as such.

I find that I agree. I governments use religion to control the masses, they won't give that up unless they have something to replace it with. Imagine if they twisted science to serve that purpose

In 1851, the physician Samuel Cartwright wrote a paper in which he described a desease he called drepetomania. drapeto being Greek (? correct me if I'm wrong) for run away slave. So drapetomania was a mental disorder that gripped the African slave with the uncontrollable urde (mania) to run away from slavery.

So it's not the tool being used but the intent of those wielding it, whether religious or science or economics or education that will determine how free people will be.