[another day]

It's a progression. Humans are becoming more reasonable and rational. We are giving up the worthless false hope of religion in favor of actually working our problems out ourselves. We are taking responsibility for our problems rather then just saying "god did it, let god decide etc" And your right, religion is totally worthless now because there are so many flavors of it, and now with globalization, everyone knows the other religions rather then being more isolated. It makes it seem like crap. And you say "but there could still be a god" and you could be right, but I think you need to come to terms with the fact that he's not some personalized ego-centric narcissist who would require one of his likely meaningless billions of creations (us) to worship him, especially since people love to do it in such demeaning ways and use him as leverage against other people. "If there is a god, he must be quite sick of being called down on both sides of an argument" is a great quote.

IMO, its a definite progression. We no longer have to rely on the imaginary crutch of god and can actually find workable ways around our difficulties. Unfortunatly, not everyone is turning away from religion, and what do we have in those cases? Madmen suicide bombing terrorists in the middle east, religious zealot warlords in the whitehouse, an islamic fundamentalist nation (iran) who'd like nothing better then to destroy the entire countries of Israel and America etc. The one region that is not giving up its strong religious beliefs, the middle east is also a total shithole full of degradation, hate, violence, and cruelty. The entire base of conflict in the world today is, surprise surprise, religion.

And religion remains as it always has been, nothing but a snake under a rose, constantly masquering under the guise of love and tolerance, while outwardly projecting the total opposite on society through it's skewed followers.