When one passes into adulthood pseudo-science, religion, superstition, and myth must be left behind, as all childhood fantasies must be left behind. Maturation offers no short-cuts, no easy ways, no false promises, and instead challenges you to put forth your best effort, sweating blood at times to hold to the stringent dictates of reality. Your only reward the knowledge that you are a mature adult in a world where adulthood is rare. Not everyone can be a scientist, but science and scientific methodology is available for anyone who appreciates truth more than fantasy, for anyone with the personal integrity to stand on their own two feet. Religions make promises and offer the world if you but follow them.
People tend to turn to rationality and expect similar offers and promises.
No one is standing at your door seeking adulation as the representatives of god, nor will you be threatened with hellfire and eternal damnation for not contributing your last hard earned dime. What is different about this path, is that you choose every step you take, you choose where you walk, where you intend to arrive, and how much effort you want to devote to it, or how little. On religious paths you will encounter those who call themselves transcendent and claim extraordinary powers. They are pitiful unfortunates, so browbeaten by their own inadequacies they must contrive artifices to bolster their self-esteem. In these groups there are two kinds of people, those who follow and pay and those who rake in money and power from their followers.