forest-spirit on 08 November 2011
It's still relevant but on a personal level only.
Most of the "good" religious values are already incorporated into modern society and there's little left that religion can contribute with. In some areas religion is actually terribly outdated. Is homosexuality bad? Are women lesser beings to be ruled by men? No, none of that has a place in a modern civilisation, and the fact that homosexuality has become much more acceptable and that women are becoming more and more equal to men shows that we have moved past and outgrown those religious values.
I'd say that most religions are mere stop signs to halt the evolution of our society or even pull us back 10, 50, 100 years or more.
