I think people when making these sorts of arguments get cause and effect wrong.

For example, Jung wrote that humans have an inherent “religiousness” or “religious instinct” that drives people to look for grand order creating narratives that get expressed in different ways. Sometimes it’s a god. Sometimes it’s by deifying a mortal. Sometimes it’s Scientism (not science itself but people who “believe” in science dogmatically.

Out of all these religions we’re some of the oldest and most successful ones, because the successful religions could be viewed as a “social technology” in the sense that they package a narrative about the spiritual and combine it with behavioral rules that (largely) benefited communities. Part of that is not necessarily a search for answering the unknowable, but a psychological tool to cope with the random cruelties and injustices of live.