>> Religious figures, hopefully, will lose their relevance. > People have been saying that for thousands of years. Hasn't happened yet, and isn't going to late

>> Religious figures, hopefully, will lose their relevance. > People have been saying that for thousands of years. Hasn't happened yet, and isn't going to later. I see. How many people worship Jupiter or Ba'al today? As the number of atheists and agnostics is growing in the West: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160422-atheism-agnostic-secular-nones-rising-religion/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160422-atheism-a... and the Western trends are followed elsewhere, who is going to remember the mythical deities? > It's also really not a nice sentiment. Virtually every single thing you consider a positive can be traced to ideas that came from religion They didn't come from religion. They came from the social practices which worked for the society and got enshrined in some religions.