If the metric used is the number of figures in the pantheon, it will be very interesting to do the math for hinduism, budism, dao and shinto.

Like it or not, religiosity belief isn’t going anywhere. Science can not provide meaning for life or the universe where we exist.

What we can and should fight for is a society where belief is solely personal matter, with no room or weight on the broad public forum.

We should fight for a society where everyone fully evolves into adulthood and values truth above childish fantasy because its comforting

People need comfort and hope

Marx’s vision as expressed in his opiate of the people quote is for a world in which the truth is comforting and hopeful, and the people of the community don’t have to turn to myths and legends for positivity.

Religion is a symptom that emerges from misery and trauma, and should be regarded by the state like an epidemic of an infectious pathogen.

I hope that a world in which the truth is comforting and hopeful is eventually achieved however I kinda doubt that any kind of economic/political formation will ever change the fact that being alive kinda sucks, people will always experience hardship and sadness and insurmountable problems and faith in something intangible helps a lot of people get through that.