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There's religion and there's spirituality. You can be a total atheist but be very spiritual about the universe instead of some fairy tale that was invented thousands of years ago and is still causing people to kill each other.
The thing is though, if it wasn't religion being an excuse for small-mindedness and conflict, it would be something else. Humans are very good at finding reasons to hate other groups of humans; be it religion, race, political persuasion or what football team you support, there's always the "other".
Organised religion has a very clever design of being totally inward and closed, but under the disguise as the opposite. By its very nature, one can not argue, reason, question or attempt to prove otherwise its logic. It basically functions as the grey area where morality and idealism meets the 'outside' world - a kind of pseudo-logic that stands-in for an actual attempt at understanding the world.
Bit of a stream of consciousness there...