What would a vacuum of religious or spiritual belief be like

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I should state that I take no position with regard to the belief or disbelief of a god, deity or metaphysical divinity. What I am curious about is what this world might be like with a discouraged belief in something beyond ourselves. Is it possible that the imagination of something greater than ourselves helps certain types of humans cope with the cultural societal and interpersonal struggles of life. If one is more sensitive to the overall outcome of a system rather than the behaviors of the individual parts in that system, then that person is likely to feel weighted down in their managed individual control since they recognize that their actions have little effect on the system on whole. If they somehow believe that their individual actions have profound effect on the system because they believe the greater system is tied to their actions, then they might feel happily empowered when there would find little motivation to act otherwise. This motivation might be metaphorically named as being the spirit. I might challenge that religion and spiritualism could be an adaptive coping strategy for humans. And I would even posit that the culture that has the strongest religious core along side a strong desire for technology will likely be a culture that will dominate all other cultures.