My outlook on religion is that it was simply a way to impose a moral sense on people. It's actually scary but there's a lot of people who don't think for themselves, they think that without some kind of religion they would have no idea of what is right or wrong. It's this same reason why a lot of these religions claim to be better than the other, the people can't think for themselves and believe blindly in their religion without even attempting to think for themselves. Faith can be a good thing but with all things there's a line to be drawn where you've gone too far. It has been used to explain some things that we can't explain as well but I think the primary goal behind it was ethics. My 2 cents anyways.