Oh don't be such a pessimist. Two thousand years ago, a dude with his hands nailed to a wooden cross was just a routine thing people would walk by on the street. Hangin' people from cranes was routine just a couple years ago in Iran; throwing them off buildings was normal in a big part of Syria. Indonesia just banned unmarried sex. A fucking internet-connected sex toy is not on God's list of shit the human race should be punished for. Most of what it should be punished for is the ignorant shit done by ignorant people in God's name and the name of "morality".
So he preached the truth to the dead, the mad and the kharma low. And his word was heard, though not by ears in need.
Religion is just a low-energy survival mode of human civilisation. Regression happens upon environment collapse.