A good comment, thanks for this! I've been thinking about how to reply - but all too quickly my mind has wandered into drafting long, boring, analytical thoughts about religion, science, and the evolution of human technology and culture... But, for now, I try to be bit more brief, keeping it to the point;

Yeah, I also think that a lot of the problems of the contemporary world are because we are stubbornly trying to navigate the world with the ideas which helped us survive in the stone-age. But with all the modern industry we are affecting the global world in a way that a primitive man didn't need to worry about. The science brought us digital watches, cars, jet planes and atomic bombs, and a post-modern world where classical religions seem like childish superstition. Not everyone is convinced that this is a good thing, and a lot of people aren't satisfied with the seemingly empty or meaningless feeling of material consumerism or purely rational world-view. So then what?

Obviously, we can't go back to sticks and stones. So, I'd guess the challenge is to find new ways of spiritual and collective experience, which yield a mysterious sense of meaning and togetherness, yet without conflicting with the finding of empirical science, nor without regressing back to stone-age "us versus them" tribalism. (Reading the world news, sometimes I'm rather pessimistic about probability of that kind of development... It seems more like so many people are disappointed with the post-modern world and they want to go back to the pre-modern heroic nationalistic conservative collectivism or what ever. And the way I see it - that solution might work for small groups who don't have any advanced technology. But if we are going to live with our current population and with our technology, we simply need to develop ways to manage our lives without too much risking a global war or a global ecological disaster)