The f-word is so ubiquitous that dozens of other more generative expressions for love and anger have fallen from use. The erosion of language means we deny ourselves tools for dealing communally with experience at a deep level. This is what spirituality is for. It is not a consumer item or fashion accessory. But the language of having has eclipsed the language of participation.
Religion is a good thing because it is a storehouse of memory.
Properly used, that tradition can create a lot of freedom for living. In Lawrence Johnston's documentary Eternity a man recalls, as an adolescent looking dreamily into the window of a travel agent, noticing Mr Eternity at work on the footpath behind him. He was fascinated. After 100 years of nationhood, there are plenty of signs in our history. It's time we looked more closely at them.