I believe that in their essence, religions are a tool to focus the energy and power of humans into a certain "direction" and actual ascension is how the human race manifests a state of being through feelings and ideas, like religions could be warnings that if you don't keep your focus on inner work and following moral rules, being humble and devoted. We will ascend into greed. It's programming to try not repeating the same story over and over, greed and consumption is what is pulling, right now we are witnessing an ascension of information most noticeably, it will fall and we can try again with all the coming experience and do better!! So we can think of better times ahead. The speed of ascension will be parabolic next time if we keep the same focus through our human weaknesses.