What’s your take on religion [Spirituality & Religion]

It’s a great comfort to some people, I get that. And if it inspires one to go out and do good for others that, imo, is how it should work. And I do know people like that personally. But too often, it seems to have the opposite effect: makes people insular and smug, promotes a “we who are saved” vs. “those wretches who are doomed” attitude which really helps no one in the long run. When I finally left the church it was because I was encountering more human kindness among non-believers than from the self-professed pious. 😔