Relevance of Religion in Today's Society

In this essay, the author

• Opines that religion has always played a vital role between humans and its society, especially in terms of what is good and proper in the society.
• Analyzes how science has made people disillusioned with the influence of religions and reality. atheism is now the 3rd largest belief in the world.
• Explains that modern technology and the rapid advancement of science make it easy to point out the problems religion created in the past. however, religion must also have beneficial factors to it otherwise it could not have been around for so long.
• Opines that religion sets a moral and ethical ground and encourages people to act accordingly. some of the worst atrocities throughout mankind have been committed under the name of religion
• Opines that religious extremists are willing to murder because they embrace theologies thatsanction violence in the service of god.
• Argues that religion promotes senseless violence and suffering as opposed to guiding people onto a path of ethical and moral code as defined by their god.
• Argues that if all of god's followers committed immoral acts, we would agree with the presumption that religion is bad. however, these acts are carried out by the few religious extremists.
• Opines that it is erroneous for belief systems to be defined by the immoral actions of a few extremists.
• Opines that science and technological innovations have made what was thought impossible, possible, and that much of the suffering in the world today is caused by the lack of human morality.