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As history of the western civilization with its industrial and information matures people will reflect back a thousand years from now and make an intelligent assessment on what constitutes that western religion as we know it.

The high priests of this religion will not but the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, or any evangelical fundie in the US.
The high priests of our religion will be prominent scientists and philosophers the likes of Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Paul Davies, Stephen Jay Gould, Charles Darwin, Edwin Hubble, Russell, etc. We want answers about the world we fall back to them like medieval folk consulted the most well educated elder of their time and that happened to be their local priest or bishop, because they really felt they were the source of knowledge in spite of the fact many of them still persisted with Pagan rituals
Contemporary Cosmology is at the cutting edge of the new religion, because as we dig up relics of other culture such as Ancient Hindu beliefs about the Earth riding of the back of a giant turtle as the cornerstone of their religion and not rituals that merely pays lip service the an earlier culture they no longer believe in.

Some people may like a "tradition wedding" with all the liturgy to an earlier dogma they no longer sincerely believe in, it is just a family tradition at best. This is not religion, it paying lip service, period. Religion IMHO is what one believes to be to the best of their knowledge the nature and origin of the universe, where they fit in the big picture and the purpose of existence if there is one, and how they are ought to live their lives, which is really the measure of all religions of the past.

I have my own personal beliefs about the origin of the universe and I see no place for a god(s) in this big picture. For the moment I like M-theory which is the most plausible theory to the best on my knowledge.

So if I were to put a name or title to my religion, how about M for M-theory. At least that is what I told my fundie next door neighbor. You believe in your God that created the world literally in 6 days (sic) and I believe in M. But their is a difference, I unlike the fundie I will be prapared to admit that in the light of further new scientific discoveries I may be proven wrong and M may be just as quaint as the Earth that thought to ride on the back of a giant turtle. After all I was born with a brain and not a bible.