"Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."

I asked this question:

Do you agree or disagree with this Chapman Cohen's quote? And why?

"Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is “Worship us or we perish.” A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object."
― Chapman Cohen

There were some stupid answers. Here are some of the best answers:

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Science and common sense eroded my faith, though it took more than a whiff or a dose before I gave up Christianity.

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Yes. They are notions of wishful thinking. An excuse or jumping to conclusions.

People invented gods after they gave up trying to answer tough questions. Many of those questions have been answered by science.

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If all it took was that, we would have already freed the minds trapped in religious dogma already. Those folks will deny any science that contradicts their fairy tale...even as the same scientific method performs daily miracles like allowing man to fly or communicate great distances instantly.

They nonetheless deny what their own eyes tell them, and believe stories in a book with obvious contradictions like telling us to not kill, but in other parts telling us to kill witches or telling the Israelites to massacre entire cities. Meanwhile, as soon as they get sick, they go to the SCIENCE doctor for a cure, putting their faith in reality rather than mysticism. As soon as they heal, they are right back to believing in magic men who walk on water and talking snakes.

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They often survive for centuries (only in the minds of believers, of course).

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gods are saved by this one little combination: stubbornness, denial, and tradition.

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We have experienced more than a whiff of science, and would credit ourselves with more than a dose of common sense and yet there are people who still believe in gods.

I'm an atheist, and I'm skeptical, make an assertion and if I don't agree with it, I'll challenge it. Even if it comes from a respected atheist. Common sense dictates that we should have the tools to be able to think and reason for ourselves!

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That seems accurate. The more educated people are, the less religious they are. Most scientists are atheists, religion is less common in more educated countries (for example compare the Scandinavian countries to the United States) and religions have been dying (although they unfortunately are far from dead) over the last hundred years or so which is probably correlated to how science advances and we can explain things without gods.

This is why churches and theists want to make people ignorant. Knowledge is dangerous to their belief system. Their gods are indeed fragile to science and common sense, that is why they need to keep it away from them.

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Pretty much sums up how gods and other imaginary creatures erode away with education or like he says, common sense.