This is something that has been worrying me for some time now.  I've noticed how the language we use can effect the way we think about things.  Words like 'fate' 'faith' 'destiny' 'sin' and many others litter our language as artifacts of our ancestors superstitious and animistic ways of thinking.  I don't think it's quite enough to simply put away ones theology, it's also the programming that came with it.  Now, I don't want to start sounding like Scientologists with their "SP's" or or their "Clears", but I think it's time to weed out the rest of the damage that assuming the existence of a God being has done.  Of course I am not sociologist or linguist, but if I can get Stephen Pinker on this that would be great.