Religion is about as useful as a poopie flavored lollypop. Maybe in the past when people were more ignorant and supersticious, and it acted as a sort of social cohesion in a divided world, religion had it's place. But I think by now we have evolved past such primitive ideas.
I get the whole argument of using religion as a means of morality, but we should be asking ourselves why we would need something as fake as religion to assure ourselves or our good will? Humanity should have the faith in THEMSELVES to be good at heart, non a false institution like religion. THIS is where my faith lies, that all humans are born with a good heart, or at least with potential goodness, and we don't need to go running to religion so that God can "save us" in order to achieve goodness. All religion does is take away the power of humanity, creating a mob-like, follower mentality, and throwing all their responsibility to the wind and into the hands of an unseen deity.
You could argue that some people need religion as a source of happiness, to which I say those people are weak minded.
