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Religion will become more humanistic and less supernatural, superstitious, and irrational or it will slowly die out. But religion won't ever go away, and that isn't a bad thing. We all need stories to tell ourselves about why we are more than a tiny, temporary arrangement of atoms whose actions will never matter. As long as those stories get us to do good things instead of bad things, all is well.
I honestly don't care how many people are whatever religion they want to be. We have a tendency to organise and create doctrine. You just get rid of one organised religion to get another later. It is the nature of things. If you need a crutch you need a crutch.
The future of Christianity is in Africa, which now contains the bulk of Christians.
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Many incels in the West are incels because they are too shy to fornicate. That's a good sign and shows that their heart is somewhat clean and innocent. They should convert to Islam and get married.
Religion in the west will only be convincing if smart people believe it, so it needs a relatively advanced theology. At the moment, the impression most people have is that the intelligent are atheist, which whether true or not, the less intelligent will just defer cognition.
I think the future of religion will be something between Gnostic Christianity and Hindu Brahminism, like partial pantheism. If you abandon many characteristics of the omni God and attempt to argue for a more cosmic deity that may or may not be directly aware of humanity, I think you reach something distantly believable even by the most cynical, sceptical atheist.
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