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   Was it George Carlin or Dawkins who said that religion should be confined to one's bedroom (or something along those lines)?  I vehemently disagreed with that statement the first time I heard it but increasingly I think it makes sense.  If indeed religion is so personal it should not be brought to the public domain.  The point people often miss is organised religion is like an industry.  And these religions indulge in cutthroat competition, just like large transnational organisations.  Except that in the process they alienate people against each other, encourage or condone bloodshed, wars in the name of establishing religious superiority, support socially regressive practices and encourage blind faith over science (including, as in India, the cold blooded murder of rationalists who fought against superstition).  
At the ground level, most educated believers seem to agree that religion can and should be reformed; and certainly it should not be used as an instrument to divide people or discriminate against them.  So who's stopping that from happening?  It's the religious heads who are too scared of losing their core constituency of fundamentalist/orthodox followers.  In such a scenario, it is the heads of state who will need to act and take a tough, politically incorrect stance.  I say just shut down all public places of worship - turn them into monuments, libraries or schools, whatever you like.  But no more temples, mosques and churches (excluding other places of worship for brevity!). Pray to YOUR God within the four walls of YOUR home.  Have a portrait of Jesus or tiny idols of whichever of 33 crore Hindu Gods you worship and pray to your heart's content.  Which is what I do.  I am not an atheist.  But one thing I have never understood is the compulsion to visit some mass place of worship to 'validate' your faith.  Really?  If God is everywhere and in everything, what's so special about a man made place of worship?  Seems like nothing more than an instrument to keep delusion alive in the 21st century.  Along with, also cap the corpus of religious organisations at a level that no longer resembles the balance sheet of MNCs. Hopefully, once the hands of organised religion are thus severely weakened, its potential to divide people will also decline.