Religion is most beautiful and nourishing when it exists outside the bounds of human knowledge.  The problem with the old religions is that their scope was tethered to the outer limits of what humans knew at their conception.

As, over time, the purview of gods have become the purview of humans, the religions have, like children’s tales, lost their believability.  That is to say, I can have faith in something unknown, but it is very difficult to have faith in something for which I have concrete evidence to the contrary.

We don’t need to abandon religion.  We need new religions.  We need a place outside our ability to understand.  That is where magic and imagination live.  Religion should be the result and source of our inspiration.  Religion can help us expand and grow.  What good is a religion that constrains the mind and soul?