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It's part of it. Religious groups do a bunch of community building that just doesn't happen so easily outside of them. A lot of people are involved for that, rather than an epistemic view.
Funny I volunteer doing wildlife rescue, the local library, and the local food pantry. I've made deep personal connections to my community in those ways...
... without sacrificing my reasoning capacity
Average religious individual doesn't either. The kind of thing you're doing would happen to a much smaller extent without some of the religious groups involved.
Faith is belief without evidence. By definition that is the abdication of reason.
There are very different forms and levels of that. If people are doing shibboleths and understand it as such, that's harmless. Same goes for sticking together in a world that's hostile because of their ancestry.
Having any form of faith without reasoning is bad. It leads to what we currently see. You can have communities, without resorting to needing to believe in something that doesn't exist.
If you need faith, have faith in humans. The people you have to actually look at and see.