What The World Needs Now

I can't shake this nagging feeling that the world needs more religion, not less. When science becomes religion, more is lost than when religion ignores science.

Humans will always seek out religion in some form or another. New religions are always fraudulent. Over hundreds or thousands of years, some religions have been refined. New religions and ideologies are superficially different; all they offer over the old is fresh opportunities for abuses and new injustices. As for science, it should never guide or determine morality. Nothing is incorruptible, and we shouldn't tear down old gods only to build new ones - they'll have the same flaws in the end. At present there are 2 big problems in how our society is progressing in the moral realm: 1. faith in science (even though this is an oxymoron) is widespread; and 2. the concept of social justice is prominent and seen as different from religion and cleaner, even though it's moralistic, religious in character, and relies on zealots and bigotry to succeed. We people need to look back on our established religions and approach them pragmatically. I'm atheist and formally educated in science, yet the more I learn and live, the more I see how and where religion fits and why it's necessary. I may be wrong, but my search for truth keeps leading me down this path. It's led me away from God, but closer to the nature of religion.