Religion 3.0 - The Prequel

Having just read The Gripes Of Wrath (and drunk a mite too much Pusser's Rum) it's struck me that two centuries of Enlightenment thinking has given us... perversion. Instead of Superstitious Fears we have Nuclear Weapons. Instead of the Preaching of Hellfire we have evidence of Global Warming. Imaginary horrors have been replaced by real destroyers. What kind of sapient being would have intended this?

[Aside: Googling 'sentient' for this post gave this as the top link (which, of course, I've just reinforced ).]

We were made (I was taught and once believed) in God's image. A comforting thought, invented at the time when the Earth was both flat, and the centre of the known universe. [2nd voice: for a toddler, Santa Claus is as real as gods] Then Copernicus dented our egos, putting the Sun at the centre; but we were still God's Special Creatures. [2nd voice: the child knows the present-leaver is father, but dutifully acts deceived] Then Darwin made the obvious (in hindsight) connections between us and other animals. [2nd voice: teenagers are always embarrassed by their parents'] Cosmologists went on to reveal this Earth as but a lump of wet dust circling an insignificant star in an ordinary galaxy among billions of galaxies. [2nd voice: the adult awakes, and marvels...]

How do you feel about that?

Why?

Would you prefer to have remained ignorant?

Why?