Not the OP, but I grew up in a place where churches influence politics. My niece is in high school there and I recently learned that she lost most of her friends when she decided she is an atheist (this broke my heart).
Private faith is probably not so problematic, and some church functions are undoubtedly beneficial to their communities. However, I see organized religion as a negative for society.
I’ve often felt that life would’ve been easier if I’d been able to swallow the dogma without having to question. People who have that faith seem genuinely fulfilled by it, in an almost placebo-like way. And the decidedly local character of churches is a sort of armor against the internetification of the modern world that so often isolates us. But since I could never accept what I still see as a facile relic of a primitive culture, I feel like I missed out on the many ancillary benefits that members of that community so often enjoy.
For the record I haven't attended church in 8 years and don't necessarily plan to go back anytime soon. I don't consider myself atheist either, rather agnostic as some questions such as abiogenesis and the origin of the universe are too big to answer at the moment.