This was a really interesting read!
I've found myself having similar thoughts overtime ever since I dropped atheism as I felt that it was slowly resembling zealotry that I saw in fundementalist way of following a religion, which I wasn't particulary fond of. As I felt that there would be something missing if we would just erase all religion from earth.
I feel that people tend to discredit what religion has brought to mankind as whole. Things such as basic education or philosophical thinking. Or how religion has affected our creative thinking. So it can't be inherently bad.

I think one of the more relieving things about being able step out from yourself and re-evaluate your beliefs and views is that it feels like a constant improvement of ones being over time. Something that I feel that should be the goal for everyone to do and to me being a "absolute truther" doesn't allow that sort of improvement in a person.
I wonder if this is going to be a growing trend among the people, because to me I feel that mankind can't keep going on like this for long and we are already racing the clock so to speak with overpopulation and climate change. Which just comes to show how unprepared we are for global scale threats with the current dominant(?) mind set. Sounds a bit silly, but fun to think about nonetheless. =P