I will try to clarify my comment now that I am less baked. What I was more trying to address was this:

We can understand our evolutionary origins back through millennia, image black holes, build unbelievably complex tools, fly to the friggin moon and yet so many people still legitimately believe magic and resurrection are real. It boggles the mind. Indoctrination is a hell of a drug. The real world is incredible enough, no magic needed.

I am not religious anymore, but I do not think it takes much empathy to understand why people are still driven to religious belief. What I think it comes down to is that it gives a very simple answer to a very complex question. All of the technological advancements you mentioned are really cool, but they are not suddenly going to solve the problem of existential angst. The real world is incredible if you are privileged, but it can also be absolutely horrible if you are not. I partly understand that my optimism and enjoyment of the world partly stems from my privilege. My world is incredible, somebody living in poverty with sick family members and no insurance might feel differently. It is much easier to not need the crutch of religion when life is good. One of the reasons I do not believe in God is that I am not quite so egotistical to think the divine plan was privilege for me and suffering for others.

If you need the crutch that is religion to function in modern society then you should seek help before you shoot up some place, you are fundamentally mentally unstable.

When I lost the crutch of religion I did seek professional help, I was privileged enough that I could do an eighteen month intensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy . It is a program that is about completely changing the ways of thinking about the world, being able to radically accept distressful things, and crafting a new and more positive understanding of the world. Through that and other ways I was able to change my understanding of the world to a positive one based on secular humanism. It was all fantastic and I am so glad that I could turn me negative experience of a loss of faith into what I see as a more stable, healthy, and lasting understanding of the world, but this was also all very expensive and time consuming.

No matter what you think of the value of Religion it not exactly perplexing why it sticks around. It can offer a simple answer to a complex question. It gives people hope in a way nothing else can because it promises the impossible. Hope is usually seen as something positive, but in prechristian philosophy it was also viewed as a great potential for evil. What I can find troubling sometimes is people who try to replace the loss of hope from religion in other ways.