Is religion still relevant in modern society?

[Runa216]

RolStoppable said:

I see. But then again, there are also other things you can use as a guise to push your agenda, like pursuing a goal for the sake of the children. It basically just needs to be something that resonates well with a lot of people, so they are more likely to be accepting of more radical approaches. Although often times religion and caring for the children goes hand in hand. I suppose the effect kinda stacks in that case.

It's certainly a problem that religion is being used in such a way, but who is to say that if religion were entirely removed from society that not something else would serve as a guise? Because I think we agree that not religion per se is the problem, but rather the people who are fake.

Totally true on both accounts...but I say it's worth a test. See if taking religion and 'God' out of the equation DOES alter behaviour in the ways I theorize.  again, I'm not as anti-religion as I seem, I just find it a remarkably irrational thing to believe in, and I see it used as a tool to force ideals and opinions entirely too often, sometimes violently.