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RE: Does modern society need religion?
Thank you for this very well written article. I am also convinced, that human beings are religious and that they need religion to survive, even if they do not like the idea. If people do not believe in what we might call "traditional" religions, they put their religious energy into manmade religions (libertarianism, socialism etc.) or into new spiritual movements. For me, it is as easy as that. The rest is rhetorics. I prefer to see people being connected to the "traditional" religions, since they have been doing a good job for thousands of years, but it is not my choice :-)
Thank you for reading and your good comment. I agree many modern political movements and philosophies end up as strict doctrinaire para-religions.
Traditional religions on the other hand have gone over the centuries through learning processes which make them today often less doctrinaire than those movements.
I believe that both Christian fundamentalism (as in some American churches) as well as Islamic fundamentalism (as in the Wahhabi-Salafist movements) will eventually totally discredit themselves and will be overcome by the peaceful movements within the two religions, just as I aspect that Hinduism will eventually align itself more with the ideas of Mahatma Ghandi, overcoming the caste-system once created by the Brahmins and later eagerly supported by the British while India was still a part of their empire.
But you are right, it's not our choice to tell people what to believe :)