Do some people need religion?

[Nobody]

Some people need to see their reason for existing in a nice tidy box. When it comes with a rule book also, it's their ideal.
Those folks aren't prone to recycling the box and using the book for a good fire when the electric is turned off for lack of payment, and the fireplace is the only source of heat because those prayers said for days have achieved no sudden influx of green salvation in the mail or falling from that invisible provider in the sky.

It's as it should be. Supplicant fundamentalists serve as an example to what can become of a people who give up on themselves and turn to nothing, expecting it to save them.