My firm belief as to why God and spirituality make no sense to modern people is because we are now completely sheltered from matters of life and death. Death is no longer a reality that one faces regularly, instead it's an abstraction. 1 And suffering is no longer dealt with consciously, rather it's numbed away so as to pretend that it doesn't really exist.
On the other hand, the fact that organized religions were exposed for what they are - dogmatic, corrupt and abusive institutions - was likely inevitable, and probably a good thing. My problem is more so with the fact that with religion gone, so were the important matters that individual spirituality tackles.
Ironically, the expression "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" says far more about the state of academia in our day and age than religion, which at least has the decency to ask the really important questions in life: what does it mean to live well? what happens after death? how should one act in face of adversity? what is the point of my life?
You might not agree with the answers given by the various religions of our time, but I think we can all agree that these are far and beyond more important than anything being discussed in the mainstream, including scientific communities.
1 See my essay on triviality, especially the part on death
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2024-04-13