i understand that there are still people alive today that think ending religion is going to make us less moral and lead to some kind of collapse, as though religion hasn't been an irrelevant idea in western culture for over three hundred years, and that period didn't coincide with our greatest advances, socially.

this is the back of an old neubauten disc from the 80s:

they're holding on to a broken column in an already destroyed structure.

it's not even close to being over; it's been over for centuries.