Where knowledge ends religion begins.
I'm a student of world religion so to me it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching to love their neighbors then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
I liked the humor of it I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Religion kept some of my relatives alive because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven some companionship in Jesus they probably would have committed suicide their lives were so hellish.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.