Does the religious myth benefit modern society or not?

[Dark_Lord_2008]

scat398 said:

Dark_Lord_2008 said:

Religion is dominant in less educated and less sophisticated societies. The more educated and advanced society becomes there is little or no need for a belief in a superstitious, corrupt backwards religious belief system. Islam is widely linked to global terrorism/jihad. Widespread corruption, religious crusades and child sex abuse scandals have plagued Christian religions and sects. 

This is actually one of the great lies perpetuated by the left.  Studies have shown that the more advanced and prominent members of any country are likely to be more active in their church and the poor and less educated are less involved. 

Even in Islam, it is the more upwardly mobile who are more actve in their faith. 

It's always religion that gets blasted for the negatives but they never receive the credit for the positive things they bring...and their positives far outway the negatives.

Your 1950s McCarthy style propaganda  argument does not hold up. It is 2013 buddy and the Cold War and Communism ended over 20 years with the collapse of the Soviet Union and both China and Russia have moved away from Communism towards Capitalism. Religion in the western world has become irrelevant over the last 30 years as people no longer need religious influence in their lives. Jehovah's Witness and Christian cults doomsday predictions of the world coming to an end in 1975/84/99/2001/12 never happened. The Catholic church has been found out to be covering up pedophile Priests and nuns abusing children in orphanages over a long period of time. Muslim extremists were behind terrorist attacks: 9/11, London bombings, Madrid bombings, Boston bombings and countless other terrorist attacks around the world. The most advanced and wealthy members of society are now mainly atheists who only care for self, wealth and maintaining their power, control and influence. Society has changed since the 1950s/60s.