Religion should be encouraged if it has positive effects on people.What do you think?

[Pat Mustard]

I suppose the trick would be finding something that cultivates inner peace, rather than cultivating pious professions of inner peace bundled with all the other shit.

Like Buddhism. Which isn't exactly a religion, but..

Except that buddhism doesn't always manage to be peaceful. For one example there was the expansionist, warring and brutal Tibetan empire, for another, more modern, one look at what is being done in Myanmar against the Rohingya people, largely lead by Buddhist monks.