Utter crap, Ken. Your sophomoric nihilist game can be run on any phenomenon that exists. I prefer reality, myself.
If the left were to adopt your Alice-in-Wonderland attitiude to religion, it would simply be driving yet another rusty nail into its own coffin. Billions of people practice religion, and understand themselves to be acting as such. One of these is my grandmother, a lifelong Catholic who has never hurt a fly. Her religious belief is NOT a political claim, whatever you might try to say about it.
As Lukacs once said, whatever academic games we might be playing in our heads, when there is a speeding car approaching and we're standing on the curb, we're all realists and pragmatists.