I hear people saying that religion is outdated, and others that religion is not valid unless it comes from historical evidence about what people believed hundreds of years ago. I think these two statements by different groups of people are directly matched to each other. You could argue this happens because the ways of life are different than the people who lived around those times, but this does not always seem to be a problem since many spiritual systems from Africa are still practiced in traditional ways from 10,000 years ago. The ways of life of people who worshiped certain gods influenced practices such as Hinduism or Norse Paganism, but the gods are still active and people still experience their presence.

The reason people think that religion is outdated or no longer applicable is because a lot of groups reject personal experience and want people to believe only what someone wrote down hundreds of years ago. If you’re not the person writing it down, why would you even care? People do not historically believe the same exact thing down to the letter as modern religious institutions want, that thinking comes from the Christian church when they wanted to prevent their movement from splitting from itself. The faith of people tends to vary by regions of a country, city, rural, and are generally extremely varied in folk practices. Modern religious practices reject anything that is not already documented, so spirituality is separated from religion. What we consider religion now, is just an artifact of what spiritual people were doing in the time their prophet was alive. Now people are doing astral projection and making things happen who are technically atheists. You can pray and adopt the spiritual practices of whatever faith, but those are like technologies, and more advanced and effective methods can be found over time.

The reason everyone thinks religion is dated, is because they reject the spiritual beliefs and practices of people that are actually alive now.