Would a world without religion be a better or worse place?

All religions are man made control systems. Sad to say even the so called Christians make up their own rules and regulations and require their followers to obey these manmade doctrines. I personally love the God of Jacob. And I believe James 1:27. It says that 'pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. The first part of that definition is fairly easy to do...but that second part (boy o' boy)...that one will sure keep us minding our own business and tending our own affairs.