That's a good perspective. I just woke up so I'll have to read a full architect later on, but I do think there's a bit more to it.

I wrote an overly wordy through process, but I guess I was saying in short that religious belief is likely a kind of natural side-effect of a series of inherent needs to get through the world with an uncomfortably complex brain that experiences mental issues no other animal does. Yet we still require the basics, tribalism and such, which manifests itself into religions and cults. Even the atheists such as myself, lost without religious groups to fall into, typically find themselves in less controlled equivalents of worship (2SLGBTQIA+ communities, political sides, etc).

I reckon its unavoidable, and with an increasingly atheistic world, I'm curious, perhaps concerned, what form it will manifest itself into down the line. But yeah I don't wanna make this discussion drift off too far, though it is all a result of confirmation bias =D