These days technology has given us an explanation for everything that used to be divine. Information, and explanation, are at your disposal and there is no need for a higher authority. Maybe science has beaten God as a viable explanation. I'm not saying that God is going to come down and end the world. I don't believe in organized religion.
Organized religion is organized just in case.
Karl Marx is wrong though. I think the blame for the incipient armageddon goes to television. Thanks to MTV, there is an entire generation, of which I am firmly a part, that knows all the lyrics to every Madonna song but fidgets after being made to sit still for five minutes. These days, hyperactive kids are sedated into an ideal. After the MTV generation, the Stepford generation.