Is religion still relevant in modern society?

[Mr Khan]

theprof00 said:
half all all religious need was removed when the street lamp was invented.

Religion has always been first and foremost, a way to get people to obey the law when nobody is watching them. Almost all religions share an "omnipresent" being of some kind.
And almost all promise a reward for not being bad.
Basically, the whole of religion can be drummed up into, don't rob and kill that person on the street, if you can abstain from doing this, you will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams in the afterlife.

Judaism has no afterlife to speak of, and Shinto puts very little influence on the afterlife. Buddhist morality is very far away from the Christian perception and their end-goal is very ambiguous in nature, nor do Confucianism and Taoism advocate much in the way of afterlife, though the latter at least makes a sense of cosmic order

In short, religion's role as a social glue is much more complex than a simple carrot-and-stick heaven-or-hell mentality that we often boil Christianity down to, since Christian social ethics also hinge upon far more than where you're going