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Oh I've got one on this subject!
Religion served an adaptive role in human evolution, otherwise it would not be a universal in all small-scale egalitarian hunting and gathering societies that we know of. It could of course be part of a larger adaptive system having to do with our intense eusociality, but again, the fact that it's universal tells us that it's there for a reason and is playing an important role.
That said, I am an atheist and believe that religion is mostly maladaptive in contemporary industrialized large-scale societies.