Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.