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If religion disappeared for a hundred years and then resurfaced, I think it would probably explode. Why? Because there is power in religion, and a populace who has grown beyond religion to suddenly be introduced into a religion creating experience would be completely and totally overpowering.

I think the dominant religion would be deus ex machina, or some viral or bug strain religion that has the side-effect of prolonging life exorbitantly. I picked those two because they are largely hard to predict phenomena. For example, lots of people feel like computers have personalities. They sometimes exhibit quirks. While they are easily explainable scientifically, I could realistically see quirks being interpreted as motivation and persona.