If you believe that the stories, morals and symbols that’s employed in religious dogma are fantasy and the scourge of society, you’d be as well throwing every product of creativity onto the fire along with the Bible because you’d be hard-pressed to find one that is not directly influenced by religious stories. The story of Harry Potter, for example, may look on the face of it like a fantasy story but it’s a replication of the story of Christ. At the end of thestory, Harry is killed by Voldemort (a manifestation of Satan) but is re-born in order to defeat evil. If you want to throw religion to the flames, you better be prepared to throw everything else in with it because you’ll be left with nothing by nihilism. We’d like to assume that we are happier now than ever before. Materially we have more and we have scientific and rational thought.