Religion is Ignorance

I have noticed that throughout history almost every civilization, culture, and people seem to have a religion. I believe that this is because of their primitive state of being and the ignorance of not knowing anything else to contradict the ignorance.
Rome and Greece were very scientifically oriented societies. Ironically they too had religion. They believed in the all-too-famous Greek and Roman Mythology. Today people look at these two civilizations and think that they can justify believing in a sun god because they had no way of knowing about the earth’s rotation. My point is that today hardly any one shares in these pagan beliefs. The only people are those who are isolated and undisturbed in the backwoods, like in Africa or South America. The ancient Greek and Roman gods were proven to be false. I would bet that if you went back in time and you tried to tell a citizen of one of these two civilizations that their gods were not real they would probably not even take ...