Well, sky fairies are never relevant, which is why it upsets me everytime someone mentions one whether its “good” news or “bad”. I dont agree that there is a benefit to having positive stories about sky fairies to counterbalance the negative ones. You are right that we are very far from abolishing religion though, but that doesnt make it less upsetting to see or hear. Similar to how it might be upsetting to see any other rampant problem that seems unfixable.

The absurdity of it all is pretty easy to see, yet it happens constantly. Story after story of a tragedy happening to a person, who then survives and thanks their sky fairy for rescuing them despite the sky fairy also causing the original tragedy. Its nonsense, and its disappointing and its extremely common.

Having a majority of people on this planet believe in sky fairies is actively worse.

I too am sick of religion. Its like as soon as I think someone might be reasonable, they mention god and it all goes down the drain.

Its not racist to resist change from outsiders who happen to be another race.