I think that traditional religions in a practical way (in compared to having a nameless faith), provide communities of people who basically agree to uphold similar moral values. And I would go as far as to say that they may actually be critical for the long term continuation of human civilization.
While it maybe a controversial thing to say in a growing secular world, for those who might think having churches is not that important, they may be missing two important things.
Firstly, not everyone has the same capacity to live life without the emotional and social support a church can bring. Now I would imagine that while most of us here on this board, have likely been harden by our experiences with the Organization and are now quite resilient and strong independent thinkers, many that we previously called 'worldly' are not, particularly when they have aged or experience personal tragedies, as demonstrated many times over by increased church attendances during wars and other disasters.
And secondly, while it might seem easier being a 'lone wolf' as an individual, no one is going to survive in life without friends of some kind. Which is going to be harder if the people around you, wonder if you are having sexual designs on their mate, plan to forcefully steal from them or commit some other kind of antisocial alpha chimpanzee action. Even packs of dogs have rules, and to live with others (at any level) there needs to some control or moderation over impulsive behavior. YouTube is full the results when 'Karens' and 'Kens' reject community norms, even now ... and we all know how it works out for them.
Thus I believe that without a sustained standard of community morals (which religions are very good at providing), global society will eventually de-evolve into a Mad Max world were everyone is his own god ... which would be far worse than having a few gothic buildings in our suburbs.
