Is religion still relevant in modern society?

[theprof00]

Mr Khan said:

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

It was a generalization that fits. You can't point out specifics to counter a generalization.

But maybe it was a little off.

Religion took root as a form of social ethics that allowed for people to live by a non-enforceable code of laws. Many religious codes are enforced by punishments and rewards (either extrinsic or intrinsic) provided by the imaginary creations of the religion.

How's that?

Before religion:

If someone does something wrong, they are bad. We will punish the person who does something wrong. We will thank the person who does something good.

After religion:

Even if the person who does something wrong is not caught, he will feel the repurcussions of it in some way.
and the opposite "even if this person is thankless, he will benefit from his good deed somehow".