Yeah, I think we're both using the word religion in slightly different contexts.
For me, spirituality is something way different than religion. Religion does not have to be spiritual, and spirituality does not have to be religious.
I'm using the word religion in its original sense, involving ritual and a sense of orthodoxy.
Sure, I think what I'm getting at overall here as far as this posts topic is that material metaphysics(scientism) has just as crappy an ethic as pre-modern myths; perhaps even more so if we are being herded into a materialist dystopian technocracy.