I understand your point. It is all too common for organised religion to be harmful or counter to society. The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for.

Human institutions are by their nature prone to terrible abuses. The point I am trying to make is that when an individual has a relationship with that which is above human institutions, a higher power, humanity is protected to some degree.

For example, let us say a random church promotes a genocide, but a Christian reading the Gospel realises that Christianity is about peace, love, caring, forgiveness, then that renegade church can be ignored.

There are moral truths that transcend time and space. These truths are not the product of governments or even a church. They derive from a higher power. If we lose that the descent into hedonism and tyranny cannot be avoided.