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Throwing out religion would be like throwing out folk medicine - you lose all the traditional knowledge about which plants are good for what. In both cases, it's best to squeeze out the cultural juices before consigning to the dustbin of history.
Can you justify that tradition ought to contain knowledge? Folk medicine has a very crude optimizing drift - do it wrong and the patient dies, and some cures can be obvious. I don't see even that in religion. For what reason ought it to produce better results than noise?
You are doubing there are things of value in religions? Many religions contain things which have proved to be valuable in modern times. Consider Hinduism and Hatha Yoga, for example. Civilisation didn't get Hatha Yoga because science rediscovered it - it got it from the Hindu religious tradition.
Sure, so let's dump the religion and keep the yoga.