Is religion outdated or does it still have a place within society?

Religion still has a very small place in society. Despite religion's generally antiscientific and tribalistic nature, religion is capable of making people feel better in the short term. It makes sense to have a small subset of the population worship, but do so understanding that their faith is for the benefit of themselves and not grounded in objective reality. What's outdated is the view of religious figures and concepts as actual things in reality rather than tools for processing the human experience in a way that's acceptable to us.

Some people are religious and it helps them -- I really don't wanna take that away from them. But in order to prevent religiosity from getting out of control and hurting people, we've got to uphold responsible worshipping practices.