The only reason the religion ever existed is because of human nature to control what we cannot. In this case people and how they think. People use/used religion in the past against those who were uneducated and needed to be controlled. In other words...create a bogey man to use a s threat and higher authority providing leverage for those who seek control. As people have become more educated over time, they began to put logic in place and question the role of religion in general. Religion still acts in this way...as we see in the middle east (isis used religion to terrorize the population in order to exploit the oil resources of Iraq and Syria though I am convinced that they are not religous...they are simply a cartel like in Mexico) and Africa has religious conflict as well.
Religion always needs a bogey man to exert control and exploit resources. In western society today, we have replaced god and traditional religions with environmentalism. The earth has become the new god. It nicely fits with the control element even better than an unseen god...because we can see it and we live on it. Threaten people with the extinction of the earth and guess what...control! The left has embraced this idea and is seeking to redistribute wealth throughout the world and remove control from the advanced industrialized countries. Antifa is leading the charge here. They are collecting the disenfranchised, Black lives matter, LBGQ, and many others (including Muslims in North America at the moment) and lets not forget environmentalism and pitting them against western values and capitalism. This is blatant exploitation. Western religion is also their target, because they are the traditional control element in western society. Communism figured that out long ago. They have also figured out that in order to control, you need violence...thus the justification for their riots and disorder. Something the communists were also experts at. Oh and remember...in Germany in WWII the Third Right was the god that was policed by the Nazis...again for control and through the use of violence. Lets not forget that all of these need an enemy to focus on, western capitalism, Sunnis, Shiites, Totsies, Houtus, Jews, Trump...etc.
Just some things to reflect on