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I agree with Zeraph. Religion is an ignorant person's way of explaining how the world works. Thousands of years ago when people heard thunder and saw lightening, they attributed it to the gods because they didn't understand it. Nowadays, the only thing science cannot fully explain is why we are here on earth, and so religion is being used to fill the gap.
The reason more and more people are leaving organised religion is simple - more and more people are advancing to higher education. With education comes the ability to critically think, and any religious doctrine's worst enemy is critical thinking. Religion almost relies on the ignorance and the blind, senseless following of the masses to propagate.
In the future we will hopefully see more and more people start to think rationally, and, more importantly, for themselves.
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