Religion is not there because people die, religion is there because people believe.

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And they believe because:

• lazy people don’t want to pay the mental price for understanding, therefore they search for shortcuts, and believing looks like a shortcut to knowledge,
• open unanswered questions do exist

Therefore if religion would be intended to disappear, it would need that both of those points to vanish. Then the question is: is that close to happen? Is that even possible?

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Half of the people are always simple minded, half are always clever. Just like half are shorter, half are taller. Half are poorer, half are wealthier. By being a relative measurement, it’s unavoidable, so getting rid of mental laziness is not possible.

Then in a world with no open questions to think about, life would be so boring. So there is that, too.

Overall, it seems that religions and beliefs will always be.