If religious institutions will not submit to change, then violence and conflict will continue and will follow us throughout the millennium. But alas, it is only 2400 A.D. and both we and our religious institutions are not yet ready to change. And so a persistent old companion of ours emerges into a new domain. As we begin our exploration of space in earnest, we take with us the concept of Evil, the Devil, Satan. Philosophy has failed to turn us around.
Religious institutions wield their power and overrule reality.
God remains omniscient in our eyes. Religious institutions, the main bastions clutching to status, inequality, and subservience, are afraid of losing control. Philosophy is unable to change the flow of history, the flow of our direction into the future. We move on under the weight of subservience, violence, uncertainty, and doubt regarding our true significance. We are afraid to grow.