Is religion a symptom of emptiness and lack of meaning of one's own life or the answer to an ever growing complexity that we have to deal with in our daily lives? Interesting perspectives here.

I understand you want to transcend beyond materialism, but is religion (or "God") the only way? Maybe we can we find meaning in the things we do by not necessarily serving a "God", but serving humanity as a whole?

Science does exactly that.

Cheers!