No God

I reckon that Ockham's razor has religion beat now, and "experimentation vs faith" will finish it off in the long run. Esp. now that neuroscience research groups are showing that you can expose people to electromagnetic fields and induce religious experience, angelic visions, conversations with the almighty etc. It would be a pretty sick joke if our global religions are the result of a sunstorm a couple of thousand years ago.

I doubt any amount of scientific rationalisation or discovery will kill off religion. Religious faith does not stand up to logical analysis and much that the faithful hold to be true has been shown to be at least unlikely as we learn more about the world around us.

Despite all this, alot of apparently enlightened people are religious. I know a good few exceptionally intelligent (by my shitty standards) people who are Muslim or Christian. As we're not in the sixth form anymore, I don't press them on their faith when I meet them. 'Faith' in the dictionary says something like ' belief in a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof'.

The zealots fuck themselves up trying to rationalise their beliefs scientifically, and much organised religion (as a manifestation of human avarice, fear, tribalism etc) is pretty unpalatable. However there's no getting away from the fact that some people find faith addresses a human need not met elsewhere.

My guess is that the biggest obstacle to 'enlightenment' is death. Humans fucking hate the notion of dying, it shits us right up. That's why most religions are effectively death cults. Atheism says 'when you die, that's it'.
I can live with that, as can many others. I'd say we're in a minority there and chances are when I'm facing annihilation I may change my mind too.

Fuck me I'm going on.