Yeah perhaps. I wouldn't bet on it. We have found that having a religion kind of gets in the way of decision making and reasoning, cos the rules that govern you under a religion were written by Joe Bloggs and Sidney Smith. I'm not going to organise my life around what they want me to do. I will use my reasoning to decide the best course of action.
Of course, everyone is entitled to having a religion, but in the end, everyone will see that its not necessary.
The older I get, the more I am convinced that indeed, religion is as necessary to the success of human civilization as air and water. Shocking and politically incorrect as it is to say so, some religions are better than others, and Christianity is superior if only because within its teachings are the key elements of how human civilizations can thrive -- not just exist, but thrive. Christianity ALONE is why there is no longer slavery in the Western World, and why indeed slavery was so short-lived in the U.S. The ten commandments, the seven deadly sins, the Golden Rule, are so simple. Don't engage in envy (class warfare and what it's doing to America, anyone?). Don't steal. Don't bear false witness. Avoid gluttony and sloth. No matter what, take a day off once a week to count your blessings, etc. etc. If every individual in America attempted to live by these rules, imagine how many "chronic" societal ills would evaporate. But no -- we live in a society that happily engages in envy, lust, anger, avarice, adultery, covetousness. Pop culture and government "entitlement" programs make them accepted and even fashionable!
Morals are taught, not innate. Societies that lack religion are doomed to become advanced "Lord of the Flies" societies. Human sacrifice, slavery, gratification of appetites for cruelty, compassion regarded as weakness. I have a friend who is half indigenous South American. He says he's damned glad the Spanish missionaries ended up down there, otherwise he'd be living in a mud hut in a society that perceived as "normal" things that we have, over the centuries because of religion, come to understand are barbaric and primitive.
As I have gotten older, I have realized how very, very much we "sophisticated" folks have come to take Christianity for granted and arrogantly attribute to our own good sense benefits which in truth have resulted in centuries of adherence to the Christian ethic.