It's fairly frequently said that much as 'Religion' developed from polytheism to monotheism, we can expect intelligent members of society to catch on to the trend, adopt atheism and for society to gain commensurate benefits.
To my mind, this blatantly commits something like the "xkcd extrapolating fallacy". This should be avoided.
http://xkcd.com/605/
Naturalism is a drastic cure searching for a disease. The bogeyman of 'Religion' does not cut it.
Get rid of God and you lose a lot, including some of your own footing. The phrase "self-defeating" is one which avid naturalists need to learn, relearn and check their thoughts against before they're verbalised too vocally. The turn to monotheism prevented the worship of nature and self - attempting to remove God seems to just result in retrogression. Let's not go there.
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