Religion is positive, beneficial, and great for humanity. Religion is “Humanity”. Or in other words, Humanity is a religion in its own rite, an extension of mostly Christian ideologies.
I believe that about 90% of all humans have “slave genetics”. These people are stupider, mentally inferior in most ways, and require lots of instructions and commands to live “normal lives” in society and civilization. These people are the base of the pyramid of social hierarchies. The slave classes are the lowest classes of humanity. They really don’t know much about life and existence, representing great ignorance and also innocence. A slave-mind is infantile. It has difficulty potty-training, wiping her own ass, dressing herself, speaking in public, and struggles to maintain a routine daily life.
Therefore, religion is necessary. Religion cultivates the slave populations, over centuries, breeding them and watching them breed, monitoring their children. Over time, entire populations of slaves (Humanity) create the foundation of human civilization. The “Priestly” orders are the slave-masters. The slave-masters own institutions of knowledge, libraries, colleges, universities, “higher learning”, churches, and other cultural institutions. Slave-masters dictate what can or cannot be said in public schools. They dictate morality, law, and order. They regulate crime and punishment, “Justice”.
For example, the common fact that it’s illegal (in european countries) to have sex with a 15-year-old girl, but 16-year-old is legal, is a creation of the Moral Order. Morality dictates that there must be an age at which sex with minors is illegal, and when it’s legal. This is a regulation across the entire human specie. Thus, all “human societies” will enforce such laws and represent them. In other words, the slave-masters control and dictate the sexual discourse of the entire human population. This is just one example of countless others.
Religion is necessary, because without it, the slaves will instantly revert to animal nature. Imagine the world without law, order, crime, and punishment. People would murder each other, because there is no “police” to stop them. They would steal. They would rape. Everybody would be at odds, and at war. Individuals would need to arm themselves. There would be social chaos, paranoia, mistrust, and a breakdown of society. Religion prevents all this, and creates the constant, ongoing “illusion” of safety and security. Religion postulates, guards, and maintains the social “Status Quo”.
A final note, you don’t have to be a “Christian” to be religious. You don’t even have to believe in the christian “God”, to be religious.
To be “human”, to be a slave, is to be religious. You are religious insofar as you are “Human”. Humanity itself is a religion.