But then again, if you had any brains, you wouldn't need to try to humanize the universe and get together once a week to chat about it

Name anything that has worked better. Point to the results.

Name one society, one culture, one city that had better results without a belief in a god or gods.

The USSR, Communist China, Cambodia, and Socialist Vietnam were all explicitly atheist. They replaced God with the State and shot the priests and burned the holy books. How did that work out?