Belief in a higher power has been around since the dawn of time. There are as many religious people in the world as ever. Decrease in the west? Yes. Increase in the east? Yes. Faith has survived thousands of years of innovation, so it's a bit of generational arrogance (possibly coming from your particular western enlightenment reddit-reading background ;o) to think that we're finally outgrowing God. Nietzsche declare…
your statement kind of reflecting what I am trying to say. I am from East and not West. I am referring here to religion and not to God. Religions like Christianity and its institutions like church are so much based on Dogma that can not stand reasoning. Will that vanish with time and scientific progress?
The first, rational. Some folks think science will overturn religion because (they so casually assume) religion is false, irrational, and inflexible. Well, that's a touch easier to just assume than to actually argue with a live Christian intellectual, isn't it? I find the viewpoint humorously arrogant, and shall return the favor: Christianity will survive because it is not only rational, but also true. Theology and science both love truth, both pursue it through reason, and anything that is true cannot remain the enemy of either one forever.
The second, human nature. Some folks think religion is nothing more than superstition, and easily overturned by education. I think folks might find that foolish if they actually visited a church and tried it; the roots of religion in human nature are an awful lot deeper than that. The need for God, for purpose, for morality, for mythology, is a very deep and universally human thing. Science, for all its practical success, is a pursuit for intellectuals, but the spiritual is universal. For every cold intellectual you show me, I'll show you ten romantics, and maybe even a couple guys who answer both calls.
Christianity has been around for two millenia; Judaism for four or five. Neither is going anywhere soon. Oh, the institutions will change, the names will change, how they actually function may grow close to unrecognizable. But folks will gather for worship and prayer as they always have, and devout mothers will pray over their children as timeless peers. The hot theological debates will be different, but doctrine and scripture that hasn't changed in three or five millienia is not going anywhere in another ten.
It seems fashionable to pronouce religion dead at least once a century, but it's like the old knight said . . . the church of God is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.