It wouldn't work, rb336. Get rid of religion, and something else will rise in its place--Fascism, or Socialism, or Communism, or Conservatism, or Whatever-ism.
Empirical evidence indicates that most folks are hard-wired to need to believe in something greater than themselves, and they will, and whatever that thing is, it will breed intolerance, exclusion, and irrationalism as spin-offs just as religions do now.
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." ~ Voltaire
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