In some views, this connection can never be interrupted, and so it need never be restored. Were they not ever-present, we could not live. The only thing that can change is our conscious awareness of Their presence, our conscious connection with Them. In this view, religion is the way we establish, sustain, or restore our awareness of that unbreakable connection. Although the connection itself gives us life, the awareness gives that life value, meaning, power and beauty.
Religion is worth doing.
So, what we do is religion. It is also participatory performance art, a social support group, and a cheap, safe, legal way of exploring altered states of consciousness. All of those are good things, but none of them is the main purpose of the exercise. Not even magic, the ability to change our consciousness, and perhaps even the world around us, through the skilled exercise of will, is the main purpose of the exercise. All the rest is bonus.