Will religion ever become obsolete? No. Because religion is a natural virtue, as the likes of Cicero to St. Thomas Aquinas argued. Here’s a great dissertation on the topic that can lead you to all manner of wise original writings. But the point is that human nature finds itself in a position that requires us to ask of there is anything higher than us in the universe, and what our relation is to it. Most of the billions of people who walk and have walked the earth have answered the question in the affirmative for a reason. But
For all the reasons the authors define, religion will always exist to satisfy the need to believe which is inherent in the self-aware beings humans are. Life would be infinitely more difficult were we to believe in nothing. But belief is a construct of the mind that may or may not relate to reality. Religions that relate poorly will not survive in the long run.
Hopefully.
Ideally all irrational thinking, like religion, will become obsolete.
Being irrational is not a virtue and quoting random people out of context and often in contradiction to their wider point is not arguing otherwise.
For all the reasons the authors define, religion will always exist to satisfy the need to believe which is inherent in the self-aware beings humans are. Life would be infinitely more difficult were we to believe in nothing. But belief is a construct of the mind that may or may not relate to reality. Religions that relate poorly will not survive in the long run.