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So I think religion is good when it is used as a tool to figure out that you already know everything, are already complete, in a spiritual sense that is.

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It may act in the same way as breaking both your legs skiing and having to spend a lot of time looking up quietly at a hospital ceiling. That doesn't necessarily qualify the breaking of legs as 'good'.
If a run-in with religion acts as a whack on the side of the head, or a couple mugs of brandy and a good cigar in that it makes you more aware of a level of things you value that are often shoved below the surface then it served a useful purpose for you.

We may be saying the similar things, I'm just not willing to credit broken legs, good cigars or a taste of religion with any inherent value. All of them can and usually do have outcomes that range from sucky to frigging awful.