This is simply a sign of the times. As out species first evolved into a state of early civilization. We knew very little about how the world actually worked, and turned to mysticism to explain what we could not understand. We had gods for lightning, thunder, fire, water, everything.
As we grew and learned more about how the world worked these largely faded until the new face came of the Abrahamic religions. These carried a policy of “believe what we believe or we kill you” which proved rather effective. It took us from a fading Roman empire and turned our philosophical, moral, artistic, and scientific progress back a huge step and we entered the time where everyone believed in god and Jesus as lord, the time historians call the dark ages.
In the Dark Ages or the Medieval age we saw little in the way of scientific or social progress as the church dominated much of Europe with an iron fist. Anyone suspected of not believing Jesus as lord was promptly killed. Bloody wars over worthless desert real-estate killed thousands as the Caliphs and the Kings serving the pope threw soldiers at each other in the names of their magical masters.
It was only when the rationalists, and people who sought to challenge the christian dogma came around did we ascend into the renaissance. The one domineering church began to lose influence in a major way. Christianity facing scientific progress and new philosophies shattered into fragments like dropping a mirror.
It was only when scientific progress began to uncover the things that directly challenged the dogma of Christianity did real interesting change occur. After discoveries in Biology and Astronomy, and Physics showed that there was no need to invoke the supernatural to explain the universe the few believers got mad. Existential thinking further split the believers into hardcore fundamentalists, pick and choose believers clinging to the supernatural, and a growing movement of non-belief.
Now as we enter the modern and Postmodern age. The Bush years exposed the hatred and intolerance of religion and pointed most of these large evangelicals as simple men of greed and arrogance. Books like the God Delusion and the End of Faith have taken the ability to use ignorance to control their dwindling flock.
Reality and religion have become almost completely incompatible, and over time as we learn more and educate more people, the connection will sever entirely.
This is the beginning of the end for god, no matter what names, or stories, or biases you attribute to him. The age of reason is coming and we can finally socially evolve past pointing at the dark corners of our understanding and screaming “Magic!”
