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Like I said before, as you pointed out yourself, many religions organize to create good things for society, communities, our nearest and dearest and contribute to charities. I didn't deny that, I said exactly just that in my post.
In my opinion what we need, or should do, is to wake up more people to look at their lives, our lives, as a whole with open minds. Sure, to some it may seem like it's a good thing to be a part of a religion, believe in gods and have faith in things that are out of our control. But if religion was barred from the world at this exact moment, by a strange mix of fate, mass memory loss and sudden global destruction of any and all deities to be considered as anything else than mere myths, we would still be here, humans, plants, animals - part of the nature.
Where we would go from there, at this point in modern scientific discovery and invention, only time would tell, but without any religious agendas brainwashing people, controlling corporate and government interests, from the high rises of the Western world to the deepest reaches of the Amazon affected only by missionaries, I believe the world would progress with a tremendous speed with no visible objects blocking the path of discovery and exploration and the simplicity of just being here, without a certain reason, and accepting our own fatality.
We are born into this world, for few seconds, for a hundred years, who knows, but I believe that we are merely just that - births of a certain evolved species that rose to conquer most of the known Earth out of sheer luck and opportunity of adaptation. As we gain conscience, and subsequently grow knowledgeable, some of us might need to believe in something greater, still, without any previous existing religion on this day and ask questions, seek answers as to why we are here and what's our purpose. But, without organized religion and arbitrary indoctrination, we might have more of a fighting chance to surpass our limits as humans and learn.
Learn that there might not be a simple answer, beginning nor end to our existence - and we would be satisfied with that, continuing to try and find where exactly our beginnings may lie without looking out for a greater purpose or being behind it all.
I'm not an atheist in an extreme sense, I would call myself a romantic agnostic - I can't deny the probability of there being life outside our little spot in the universe nor can I deny there actually being some kind of force or immense being that created us all, who watches over our every step, from cradle to the grave. But I simply cannot believe in that, as I am a realist and I appreciate life for what it is, a simple existence in a world with billions of other beings around us.
