Does religion still have value in today's world?

Answer 1

1) Religion may assist you in overcoming peer pressure.

2) Religion will often add to your self-discipline.

3) Religion may provide you with a whole additional layer of education.

4) Religion may provide emotional fortitude, helping one overcome hardships.

5) Religion will provide a sense of identity and a community, with its ambiance and mutual help.

6) Religion provides a life and a sense of purpose.

7) Religion seeks to answer the big questions: How and why am I alive? What does it all mean?

Answer 2

Yes, religion continues to have value for many individuals by providing a sense of community, guidance on ethical values, and comfort during challenging times. It can also offer a framework for understanding the world and one's purpose within it.

Answer 3

Religion connects you to the majority of mankind, past and present. No ancient society ever existed that did not believe in the supernatural. Those who dismiss belief may be compared to an astronaut floating away from the lifeline.

Also:

1) Religion may assist you in overcoming social pressures or bad influences.

2) Religion will often add to your self-discipline.

3) Religion may provide you with a whole additional layer of education.

4) Religion may provide emotional fortitude, helping one stay confident and hopeful.

5) Religion will provide a sense of identity and association, with ambiance and mutual help.

6) Religion provides a life and a sense of purpose.

7) Religion seeks to answer the big questions: How and why am I alive? What does it all mean?

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Answer 4

Yes, religion does sometimes have value, even in today's secular world. This is not an unalloyed benefit because there are upsides and downsides to the existence of religion:

• Peer pressure is sometimes used, particularly in strongly religious communities to make people go along with extreme positions they do not really support.
  
• Religion may become a substitute for a broad and gainful education, and can be an impediment to the education of women. We see also how religious dogma sometimes results in refusal to accept what geological and biological sciences teach, because they support the reality of evolution.
• Religion provides comfort in times of hardship, but religion is also indirectly responsible for some of the hardship in the first place.
• The more religion is used to provide a sense of identity with a community, the more it splits that community off from the rest of humanity.
• The pursuit of religion can become a substitute for the pursuit of happiness.

Answer 5

Religion is alive and well and practised by around 90% of the world's population. It's only in the materialistic West that we feel we've become too comfortable to need God.