How long do you think it will be before religion is no longer a significant part of our culture?

[Warpy]

10. Like a bad penny, it always seems to come back

but it does seem to wax and wane over the years, or at least religious lunacy does.

Religion was a far stronger force in the 1950s than it is now, it's just that religious lunacy is slowly coming off its peak. It does seem to peak when the calendar changes a century prefix. The reason we've lived through the current crop of pompadoured liars is that we changed a millennial prefix and that drove superstitious people completely around the bend and into the waiting con game infrastructure of the televangelists.

Religious loonies have always been out there, from holy rollers to backwoods snake handlers, but it wasn't until the 70s that their numbers were swelled by suburbanites seeking thrills and protection from yet another end of the world.

So we won't see it go away, it will just get a bit quieter as the calendar proceeds and the sky does not fall.