Religion is necessary for humans because in our faith we learnt that we are created to worship God, the purpose of our existence is to worship God that is why I said religion is important to human.
Google circular reasoning.
Religion provides psychological comfort to some people, and they don't care that it is based on scientific nonsense, that it harms some people, and that it is simply not true.
Just like heroin users don't care what heroin does to their bodies and the people around them.
I don't mind religious people because the vast majority of religions don't act on malice towards nonbelievers. I exclude Islam here, it has its own problems. Though Islam is also not representative of most developed countries. Western values exist in most places outside of the middle east and Africa.
I recall watching a debate between atheist Sam Harris v. William Craig. Harris makes a point that religious people will use god as an excuse to not go around raping and killing people, as the deterrent of eternal hell promotes moral virtue. A bit sadistic that the existence of hell is the only thing preventing religious people from not acting like sociopaths, but if it keeps civil society intact, perhaps it's not so useless after all.
