Damn straight, I drowned several small children when I heard Futurama had been cancelled.
"Killing someone for thinking the bible is better than the Torah or the Qur'an is no different than killing someone for thinking that the adventures of Huckleberry Finn is better than that Last Mohichans, or the lord of the rings. It's all fucking fiction."
-Ministry
And I'm sorry but that's a silly quote. Let's just think about what would happen if some popular work of Fiction was crammed down our throats for thousands of years as a religion. First of all, we'd get horrible indigestion, secondly there might be some people who get a bit attached to it, start worshiping it, start forcing it on others and start killing unbelievers in the name of our Lord and Savior Frodo Baggins.
Hell, I'd even bet that there are thousands of people out there right now who'd kill for Hairy Pooter, and it's been around for what? Six years?
When something gets so ingrained into a people's culture, it's a big deal. You can sit there and make whimsical little quotes about how trivial and silly these things are, but religion is a force to be reckoned with no matter how fictional the beliefs may be. Just look at Scientology and the South Park guy. Scientology was created a little over fifty years ago as a wager by L. Ron Hubbard and now look at it, we've got Tom Cruise flying around and zapping people with lasers.
I personally hate religion, I'm happy no matter what lies ahead. But for whatever reason 99% of the world is not and will spend their lives searching for answers, protecting those answers, and killing for those answers.