To be honest I do agree with you for the most part, I myself dont belive in a "God" I think the whole concept of religion is flawed, the only problem I had with your first post is saying religion was going away and calling it a mental illness. Religion has been here for thousands of years and will be here after you and I both die. Religion is tied in with our culture, most of the population NEED religion. Some, and even most, people can not live without their religion, and they need to know other people are religious with them. I mean name the last American president that wasent religious. (I know your Finnish so if you dont know there has never been a President that wasent religious.)
And then there is the mental illness thing, as close as religion gets to being a mental illness in your eyes does not mean you get to call the billions of people who are religious mentally ill. Where is your PhD? Are you a psychologist? Can you perscribe perscription medication for mental illnesses? If not then please do not call people mentally ill for what they belive, for all we knwo you could be the one who is mentally ill in this regard. It's very rude to go about calling people mentally ill for something they have every right to belive in just becuase you dont belive what they do.
I agree with you that the way people view religion and spend money on it can be used in much better ways but I also belive that its people's right to belive in what ever religion they want and for whatever reason they want, even if thats just becuase its the religion their parents practiced, as long as someone lets me have my opinion on god, or lack of god, I can let them belive whatever they want.