My money is on... no change. Why? Because no one belief system will fit everyone, thus there would always be minorities supporting another belief system, call it what you want, but that is being human.
I want to change my answer...
My motive to change my mind was based on pessimism. A pessimistic view of my fellow human being's ability to let go of the illusion of love and connection, in order to create a system where love is more fragile, perhaps, yet more real and more active - as opposed to prayer and the feeling of being loved by god - love would be communicating with people and receiving support in the form of a hug or a real solution to the problem. And, in this new system of love and connection, instead of praising god for providing someone who was willing and able to help you solve your problem, after you told them what it was, you'd thank them for it, and not take any portion away from them to give glory to an invisible Father. You'd feel connected to the helper, feel appreciation for them, and maybe think that you'd like to be there for them some day, if you can.
I wasn't a believer before the traumas began. I was too young, really, to take it all seriously. I had never taken any of it literally before. I would bet that there are Christians out there who continue to have just as casual an experience as my "normal" childhood experience with it. They don't "believe". In other words, they don't drink the Kool-aid, they wouldn't follow someone to the middle of nowhere to create a new Christian country. They enjoy church for the community, for the fellowship, for the philanthropy, for the family bonds, for the approval, and for the uplifting messages intermittently disbursed from the pulpit and in the Sunday School classes. That feeling of belonging, and caring about one another. They don't embrace the supernatural aspect when confronted with it, and they MAY suggest, condescendingly, that they think it's really important for Others to believe because it keeps them honest and nonviolent.
Religion is a tool which our society has outgrown. Our world has far too many powerfully destructive weapons for a faith based nation to have their hands on. It is time to create fellowship, philanthropy and family like bonds in a system that embraces logic and reasoning and rejects magic and supernatural intervention. Many of our family bonds are toxic, dysfunctional because they maintain many of the same magical thinking that occurs in churches. When confronted with evidence, our enabling family members often refuse to believe it... like they get to choose what is real and what isn't real... like they can just disbelieve something in order to keep it out of their lives... like that won't impact their future, nor mean a lifetime of traumas to the reporting victim. Victims and Enablers may pray for someone to help, but won't talk to anyone themselves.
In a society where our fellowship is fostered in a logical, reasoning system, we would have support systems which work to protect victims, rehabilitate abusers and isolate predators... because those people who confront issues head on, in a down to earth, solution based way, will find themselves leaders in this kind of social system. People will follow the problem solvers out of the darkness (kicking and screaming all the way, some of them; but others will catch on quickly to the approaches used by problem solvers to sort out disputes).
Let that "minority view" be the magical thinkers, the supernatural, fantasy, wishful thinking, abstract thinking people. Those people who THINK they can muddle reality with what they HOPE is true, by stating that their hope cannot be disproved and so it must be just as likely as what logic concludes given the evidence involved. Let the majority view become one of rational, logical, evidence based thinkers who understand that regardless of the possibility that there is a god... the main focus of their daily lives must be that the only solution to our problems here on earth must come from ourselves, and so our society may flourish as we value free thinking.
