That's one of the reasons why religion had to be created; to set eternal rules to prevent no-bottom-degeneracy from happening AGAIN. All that is banned/forbidden in the christian bible for instance, when it comes to human behavior, such as homosexuality, incest, bestiality, murder, human/child sacrifice, etc Those are symptoms of civilizational collapse, the more they become the norm the closer you get to the END, hence the big no-no put on those "activities" If you don't have basic "rules"/Laws and moral principles literally set in stone by nothing less than god, it's only a matter of time before human societies fall into absolute relativism where anything is equal to everything, and it's nihilism, it's a race to the bottom, self destruction, there's no more good or bad nobody knows what's up or down, male female, dad mom, and everybody is happily swimming to the bottom believing this will lead to the surface. And once they realize their mistake (by hitting bottom), it's too late, if they ever do realize their mistake... They kind of tried to do that with the declaration of independence, "god given rights", as in eternal and inalienable... But that's not a religion, it's something limited in scope, it's a political statement/document relative to a particular .gov/country with a limited jurisdiction, borders. Religion, doesn't have that sort of parameters, it's everywhere, literally, you're in god and god is in you for a start, it's kind of virtually indestructible. Faith and god can't be touched, it's invisible, like it's just something you know and god can't be destroyed, as opposed to a geographical location/governmental entity. Now it doesn't mean the religious interpretation of scriptures can't be subverted, notably through translation errors, but that's kind of very limited, you can't turn "you shall not murder" into "you shall murder" and you can't add a commandment, there's no way, forever, god said so end of stupid debate, you can't lawyer yourself out of that. A "bad"/lame/flawed religion, is 10000 times preferable to no religion at all. Because then,gov is god, men declare themselves god