Is religion good for us?

As others have suggested, it's mixed. There are some good things done by religion, and there are some evil things. It's hard to come to an overall assessment.My inclination is to think that if religions disappeared, other social organizations would step in to do the good part. So perhaps we would be better off.Note that this all references the situation today.Historically, I think the situation is different. Religions, with their cultural myths, served as a kind of memory for the culture. It's not a memory of facts, but a memory of actions, a memory of ways to behave that helps unite the group and helps them survive adversity. So made up stories can actually be fine for this, if they convey the behaviors that are to be remembers.It isn't that we have now reached the age of reason, and can do without religion. I think it is that we have reached the age of Gutenberg, and now have better forms of cultural memory.