Is religion still relevant in modern society?

[Runa216]

lordmandeep said:

I agree Runa, however atheists need to be the better people as they claim to be and not judge us to be all stupid idiots.

Crazy religious people are very ignorant and stupid.

And truth be told, those are the only ones I hate.  Crazy religious people who are ignorant and stupid.  thing is, what kind of a person would I be if I stood by and watched bad people do bad things?  Religion DOES do a lot of bad things, and a lot of bad people do bad things in the name of religion.  (such as interfering with science, protesting research, pushing intelligent designs in our schools, perpetuating that the earth is 6000 years old and dinosaurs were not real, etc).  

this inherent belief that inaction is somehow more righteous than standing u p for what you believe in is fallacious, and I will not fall victim to it.  Standing by, watching a rapist do his thing or a bully beating up a nerd is not going to help anyone, it just encourages the bully to keep doing what he's doing since nobody would stand against his oppressive ways.  I really was the nerd who beat up bullies JUST because I was sick and tired of them harassing my friends, even though they knew better than to mess with me.  same deal, on a much larger scale.