Okay, that is much easier to respond to. Yes, as a "hard atheist", I would agree that religion in its most commonly understood form (a set of beliefs and behaviors) offers something that can enrich the human experience. However, is this positive aspect of religion something that can be achieved solely under the umbrella of a supernatural, dogmatic, and oppressive system of thought-- something like many of the major Abrahamic or Eastern religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc)?
On that point, I'm inclined to say "No." I think you can enrich the human experience with the benefits of religion without necessarily resorting to religious beliefs and behavior. It's difficult to go into detail here because I have not been presented with a platform with which to elaborate on, but I can give this example:
Though I do not believe in anything beyond the natural world, and though I try to refrain from spending my time doting on things beyond the scope of science and logic, I am regularly awed and humbled by what we do know about the universe as a result of rational, scientific inquiry. I consider it a hobby of mine to seek education in what the forefront of technology has enabled us, as one species inhabiting one infinitesimal corner of existence, to understand about the world in which we inhabit. We live in an era several hundred years after the industrial revolution, where quality of life per capita has skyrocketed and advances in every field of life are made with rapidity that history has never seen before. Why would anyone choose not to take advantage of these facts? Why would anyone choose to spend their time in a world of unfalsifiable guesswork that was conjured up primarily in the bronze age when they could instead enrich their lives with what humanity has worked over two millennia to understand?
When you speak of the "psychological" aspect of religion, I imagine you're speaking of the feelings associated with coexisting in a community of people who claim to hold answers to life's most thought-provoking questions. This is a powerful set of feelings to have, and in that sense, you can take "science" as just one more religion in the world that provides a source for those feelings. Science is my dogma, my creed, and my code, and I think Neil Tyson summarizes it quite nicely.
"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
That awe, that sense of connectedness and wonder, that sense of being a part of something greater than yourself that is so commonly associated with the religious experience? To me, there is no greater source of these things than our global community of an ever-progressing world of scientific inquiry.
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