@richardhutnik
Well the trend seems to be that the more humanity progresses and becomes more prosperous, and the more education becomes wildly available, the less religious people become. You can't deny that the civilized western world is a lot less religiousthen it used to be in the past , while the most religious places on the planet are third world countries struck by povert, disease, political instability, and illiteracy.
Since the world of Star Trek was an utopia, a perfect society where current day hardships weren't present, one might asume that religion would disappear altogether.Of course an utopia isn't possible, because societies aren't static and new problems andchallenges constantly occur.
Persoanlly I don't see why people need to worship deities. I understand that there's some form of psychological benefit in having faith in the supernatural (this applies to people of all religions that have strong religious convictions), but it seems to me like nothing more that auto-manipulation and self-deciet. Kind of like taking those pills that have no effect, but since you think they work you actually start feeling better (can't remember theri name).
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