So there's always going to be some kind of effort to make sense of the whole affair, and religion seems to have been, until quite recently, the technology with which we tried to comprehend the whole affair. So, it won't wither away. The experiments to make it wither seem to have failed. The last great one was in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe where the effort was orchestrated by the state. It didn't seem to work.
Religion represents a fundamental human appetite.
There is somehow an invisible guitar behind the prose and poetry. Oh, for every kid, a cowboy is important. I've always loved country music. I lived in Nashville for a couple of years. Country singers tend to be a little older.