Religion oh just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
You look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.