According to the French philosopher, Rene Girard, "new atheists and rationalists are dead wrong in describing religion as an ignorant archaic phenomenon. Religion is how we have contained violence and desire since the beginning of time and thus created civilization. Therefore we need religion to counter the scapegoat mechanism, perhaps even more so today in our interconnected world where tribal boundaries can no longer protect us from the possibility of existential armageddon."
https://parallax-media.eu/andrew-sweeny/ren-girard-tantra-and-the-scapegoat-mechanism-d9yr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTdvSnj5LBk
