Progress...

[Cinjin]

You can't do away with all religion. It's a pipe dream. Best we can hope for is a few thousand more years of educating the masses.

How exactly would you do that? And what that education would be like?

We just keep doing what we're doing. Change nothing, save one thing ... stop teaching religion.

I expected a more... specific, and more detailed explanation (like a plan or something). For instance, how exactly would you stop teaching religion? How would that education be like? you mean showing everywhere the flaws of religions, or what exactly does this "education" mean to you? And you would educate them in schools, using the TV, or how?

In my opinion there's only one way. Time. You cannot force people to betray their own beliefs no matter how ridiculous. There IS NO education program that can do that. We educate and enlighten the young minds that aren't yet corrupted. With enough time, and with enough minds - religion will simply die out.

Fairytales will never die. Instead, they will only be replaced with other ones. If you think about the modern religions (satanist religions like the church of satan; wicca; Kabbalah; Scientology, etc.) which are also full of fairytales and are modern (based on science - some even use that word as the foundation of the institution) then it is not hard to imagine that even before the old religions die (if they would indeed die) others will already take their place, and you'll have one fairytale replaced by another - big deal.

I don't believe that new religions will keep coming about. Yes, currently new religions have sprung up, but they are not taking hold the way they did 2, 3, 4000 years ago. Mankind is slowly wising up. Eventually, I truly believe that religion will die off and the miniscule amount of cults that pop their little heads up here and there will never have any lasting affect on the whole of humanity.

But we got a long way to go.