Why can't we accept it?

[Foxaèr]

Yes but they should be able to believe what they want to believe.

A society where religious belief is in any way relevant would have to be one whereby theists were capable of preventing themselves from proselytizing and using indoctrination to choose the lie over the truth in order to fool others into the delusion. If the religious aspect of society was capable of not disrupting the overall progress of society, whereby humans were allowed to be human instead of seen as second class citizens or science was not discredited due to ignorance, then I would probably have no qualms with religion. As it is, mankind seems incapable of allowing others to be who they are. Due to the fact that religion seems incapable of disrupting societal progress, the solution would be to discover a way to ensure a secular society.

Unfortunately, so long as religious people, no matter how supposedly good their intentions, are allowed to believe as they wish, there will always be the potential for twisting the belief. The truth should always be more valued over the lie. There is no harm in accepting a mythology as a mythology, as has happened with many ancient beliefs that were once held true, but the problems always arise when religious people think they have the monopoly on the truth and attempt to bring society back to a darker age where the primitive thoughts of those times should remain there in the form of recognized mythology rather than perceived as present/future truth.