Sherlock Holmes writes:
1) While specific theologies may go belly up...
My optimistic side wants people to go another step forward from realizing that lightning had a natural explanation and not caused by Zeus or that the Sun did not require human sacrifice to travel across the sky.
2) People are actually helped out physically by having something emotional...
My optimistic side wants people to cling onto something more natural than the immaterial pink unicorn for emotional support.
3) This will seem overtly negative, but it is true: ignorance...
Well, if we're going to have to work with ignorance, might as well indoctrinate the atheist view onto those that choose not to think.
I'm joking.
For what it's worth, my optimistic side wants people to live on Earth, not Middle Earth.