"As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway."
~Anne Hutchinson~

anyone looking at the world will see we still need "laws, commands, rules and edicts". until man ascends the point to be able to decipher right and wrong at a personal level, we'll always need a form of religion to "save" us from us; unfortunately organized religion is the only source of salvation most know and understand, and those who wield it, use it to maintain their status of representing a personalized god as the god of all humanity.

that's why organized religion will destroy humanity, not because it offers an easy way to guidelines and rules about how to be a good person, but people use the sense of God that humans were created to need and twist it with their personal perceptions of his words to pass judgement on others for lifestyles they don't agree with, justifying their hatred stemming from fear or prejudice.

i can agree with your assessment of organized religion, but personal religion can assist a person in ascending the herd mentality and becoming more than the offensive bible basher down the road; it can help them find peace with themselves, the universe and God, no matter who He or She is, resulting in a better human.

if more people work on themselves, there'd be no need for external rules to tell us who is going to be saved and who's going to be damned...we'll be able to figure it out for ourselves, listening to god and not men with the same hopes and fears as anyone else...but until that point in time, we're stuck with organized religion and the cultures that spring up around it to save us, from each other.

so religion is not the doom of humanity, humanity wielding and organizing religion will be the doom of humanity.