Having said all that religions can give people a handy moral code to live their life by and do help those less fortunate to some extent. But you can achieve the same thing by nonreligious means. Personally I like watching Sesame Street with my girl. I think if everybody watched Sesame Street and tried to live their lives by its moral strictures then the world would be a nicer place.

Although I have flirted with Pastafarianism. I like the beer volcanoes and stripper factories they have in their heaven. Even their hell has them, although the beer is stale and the strippers all have VD.

(google flying spaghetti monster. )