Religion Must Die, or Who Will We Believe in After God?

Christians, agnostics, Buddhists. Sceptics, Pastafarians, atheists. Hare Krishnas and Muslims… Since ancient times, people have been looking for a coordinate system that will not only give answers to the questions of “life, the Universe and in general”, but also support them throughout their lives. And it does not matter who a person believes in - in God, Buddha, artificial intelligence or communism. All these systems, in one way or another, provide answers to the main questions of humanity and work according to similar rules.

In the book “Religion Must Die, or Whom We Will Believe After God”, religious scholar Vyacheslav Ageev explains how religions function and how they make money, fight for power, use psychoactive substances and sex and how they respond to new challenges - from LGBT and economic disasters to wars and Сovid-19. Why was communism, despite the most brutal repressions, unable to destroy religion? How do the tentacles of conspiracy theory penetrate human consciousness and why is critical thinking turned off when it comes to conspiracy theories or NATO combat mosquitoes and reptilians?

In the end, let's talk about whether the triumph of science, Artificial Intelligence and the colonization of Mars will be able to overcome the evolutionary "firmware" and remove religion from the arena.