Are religions obsolete?

I think the teachings of great men and women down through history will never be obsolete. However, organizations and institutions sometimes surrounding these great men and women will become obsolete one by one through time. Because organizations exist only if needed by the people who finance them. And over time one by one organizations and churches likely will disappear around the world as newer ideas and religions or religious philosophies proliferate as people's ideas of what is real change and morph according to the times they live in. It has always been this way for thousands of years already.

For example, if you study cultural Anthropology before the Times of Guatama Buddha, for example, most of the worlds spirituality was based upon shamanism and tribal ways of doing things which never really lent itself to religions necessarily. It was only after people moved from being hunter gatherers to farmers who joined together for protection from raiders and marauders more that religions became more useful to people as a way to unify people's ideas so less people were killing people because of differences in any one region or area.

So, people's need for religion only really surfaced after people moved from hunter gatherers as nomads to farmers more around the world and then stayed more in one place to raise and harvest their crops.

Now, once again we may not be hunter gatherers but the same effect is taking place as young graduates from college around the world are forced once again to go to other countries for work because here in the U.S. they often can't find employment beyond working at a 7-11 or as waiters or busboys. (However, if you are working in an upper end restaurant as a waiter this can be very lucrative because of tips).

However, many young people who graduate with student loans to pay often have no choice at all but to find work in another country to pay off those student loans so they don't default and permanently destroy their credit as adults.

Even the Obamas (Barack and Michelle) were paying of student loans from becoming lawyers into their 40s even after their children were likely born.

So, religions likely will change a great deal during the next century or two. For example, I think Catholic Priests will be allowed and encouraged to marry. This might be the only way to stop the financial hemorrhaging from priests trying to be celibate but instead molesting little boys and girls in the church or even nuns. Wives tend to police their husbands and hold them to task whereas an unrealistic priest might stay an unrealistic priest until he passes away while damaging 100s of boys or girls along the way setting up unlimited liabilities for the church potentially ongoing.

In fact I would say realistically that the ONLY way for the Catholic church to stay financially solvent might be to allow priests and nuns to marry. (Not necessarily to each other).