I'm an atheist as well. I agree that religion has played a major part in the building of the world, how ever it has at times hindered progress (Galileo Galilei for instance).
I personally prefer the older polytheistic religions rather than the monotheistic ones.
Overall religion would be fine with me if all religious people were tolerant, but unfortunately the only ones that we can see are the assholes because the tolerant ones are too quite most of the time.
I love all buddhists though, they are awesome.

And now the rest of the world is hindered by it.

Accomplishments that have benefited man in the past 25 years that came from religions: .....

Accomplishments that have benefited man in the past 25 years that came from science and technology: Hubble, Stem cells, countless medial breakthroughs, computers into many homes, charities like "King Of The Web", Ect.

Religion served its purpose for many years but now it is time for it to not be a deciding factor of governments and the people.

Inb4 red thumbs.

Science and Technology have benefited us since we were us, but Religion is the fallback for society. If anarchy started to rule, one of the first things to happen would be an increase in open religion.

Not to mention religion being the fuel for some of the greatest scientific discoveries ever. That and the vast majority of scientists have been religious. I like to think of religion as the "why" and science as the "how." there's no logical reason they can't go together hand-in-hand

While Science + Religion would be logical it comes down to this.

Science.
Religion.
Pick one.

Society isn't ready yet,

Yes, but you keep the Vatican - you just sell off all the old relics in the archives, which is where the money is. You can't say it's a "cultural thing" when it's all locked away collecting dust.

Oh yeah, i agree with you there. The archives are pointless

As a bit of a history freak I have to say otherwise.
Still an atheist, but even the archives could contain priceless information.

Not pointless per say, it's just that there is no reason to have them if they keep them locked in a vault

I'm sorry but for any group that claims to want to help people but then has millions of dollars in assets I am skeptical about.

i can deny it. it was not built on the shoulders of religion, but instead on the ability for people to group together under a ruler. this brought power and strength, which brought money and land.
religion was simply a population control, and it was exceptionally effective. dont make them afraid of you, make them afraid of what they cant see and they will do what you say unconditionally.

i dont say that its not a huge part of our history, but we would have developed into what we are today, in a similar form, under any religion.
religion was an answer to the unanswerable, which is why throughout history it was prevalent.