Civilizations, along with their gods and religions, have grown, changed, and faded over the ages, and there is no reason to suppose that the current crop will do otherwise. My religion is the religion of the majority. However, while each religion may assert a local majority here and there, no religion comes close to holding a majority worldwide. Christians are the largest single group, but even these represent only about a third of the world population, according to figures compiled by Encyclopaedia Brittanica . While they are a majority in the Americas and Europe, Christians are outnumbered in Africa and Asia, where the bulk of the world's human population resides.
Religion is a force for unity and peace.
Religion has advanced human knowledge. But perhaps as much as with the originators of misinformation, the responsibility lies with those millions of others, who passively and unquestioningly accept it as true. To be sure, religion has, along with politics and philosophy, been a powerful force in maintaining the social order necessary to allow institutions of learning to flower. This was true in the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, and it was true in post-Renaissance Europe. However, religion was also responsible for events which caused human knowledge and culture to regress for centuries.