The thoughts that keep me up: as society has secularized, we've replaced the notion of covenant with that of contract, and lost a sense of the sacred in dealings with - and obligations toward - others; we no longer think of agreements as being sanctified by higher authority. 1/
Functionally, God is the identification of the individual with a collective superorganism, which is an adaptation for multilevel selection. Socially, God is the platonic form of the tribe, state or civilization. Removing that platonic ideal may leave a monstrous animated shell.