Post-traumatic growth has been noted as a key driver in changing the beliefs an individual holds.
Given that climate change will affect everyone, does it provide us the opportunity to come to a better shared understanding as a species?
Perhaps one in which we all come to remove faith as a valid way of coming to knowledge and accommodating new experiences into that body of knowledge.
I'm high right now in case it's not obvious.
@stuartblair I don't know about removing faith, per se, how about learning how to incorporate scientific knowledge into the underpinnings.
Not enough people know how to merge the two without freaking out.
*10 points for "post traumatic growth"
@mach Albeit in a single direction of travel, I think this is what's already happening.
If you look at human progress from the time of the Copernican Revolution and continuing into to empiricism and the scientific method, we've found better explanatory models to refine our knowledge than have been provided by faith. As we understand mechanisms, we develop models with better predictive power and don't need to rely upon supernatural explanations for observed phenomena.
@stuartblair I see alot of that, too. I'm not sure why, but it seems that lay people don't have much trouble holding both paths, but clergy often does. Some faiths more than others.
A popular view is that scientific discovery does not negate God, and neither is threatened by the other.
Religion used to be all the science there was - the old ways need to be brought up to speed, imo.
Idk. I'm not high, so I might not have any idea.
@mach here's to the perspective-expanding properties of Jack Herer gummies.
@stuartblair Hear! Hear! 
@mach I think this is why nowadays we begin addressing strange personal behaviors as symptoms of mental illness rather than of demonic possession.
We're gradually pushing back the boundaries of our need for a god to exist at all.