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If he's implying that the world would be better, then he's wrong, because it takes better parenting to make a better world, and without it religion is needed to carry people through life. They have to be given some kind of hope, no matter how false. And children reach the age of reason very early, about 4, which is when religion is taught to us. And parents teach their children religion because they don't know anything else to teach them, and they are certainly not role models of what they expect their children to be.
Most people who think they believe in religion really don't, but they still need it to be there to get them through life.