Does the world need religion, even if it doesn't need God?

[Cosmic Ape]

I wish the dominate group on the planet was a Transhumanist group that was almost religious in a sense about the ideas of keeping people alive (not killing them) trying to live longer (not repressing medical science) and progressing our species without hurting other people, the planet or other animals. Until then, no I don't actually think the world needs religion, once we move into the age of technological dominance people will wonder why they ever believed in such dribble. In the real world, religion doesnt take the role of progressing anything, it does the exact opposite. We have these cretins going against common human interests, they spread AIDS in Africa and regulate currency unfairly within politics to help their religious and monetary bias. Unfortunately, we all live in a world with majorly unjust laws and presuppositions about the world that need to be demolished very soon.

If the younger and more scentifically inclined generation doesnt take over and change the Social and Monetary zeitgeist any time soon I'm afraid we wont be evolving much in the near future. No offense to old people but they mostly vote against the youth and say things like socialism is ok for us old folks but you youngins can work 3 jobs to afford the awesome medicade I get, fuck that... Worst case scenario we all go into another huge World War or have a nuke-off contest only to dwindle down to the dark ages of oppression again, ruining millions of years of evolution and thousands of years of scientific progression. We cant let it happen, the ideas of religion and deities in a dogmatic way, have to go.