A few years out, while I'll never return to religion, I get the draw of community and the lack of really caring about what others define as the worldview for most adherents still in their respective systems. Something of genuine objectivity can be returned to by victims of religious trauma, IMHO, but it takes a lot of processing and a general sense of cynical apathy.

All and all, communities in general can create trauma. Its odd to me that many religions tend to be especially good at it.

On the other hand, some religions I respect greatly for their desire to improve the lives of their adherents. Reform Judaism and their commitment to tzedakah and tikkun olam, Sikhism, liberal Christianity, and so forth.

Religion is a mechanism to transfer culture (though not exclusively so). When it cuts out its feedback mechanisms in its governance structure, it inevitably becomes toxic.