Honestly life our lives are meaningless.
If you stop to think what are we, what am I, only one person in 7 billion.
Both me and you know I'm not spatial in any sense, nether are you, and nether was Einstein. We are all resumed in one in 7 billion, that live in a planet in 7, that orbits a star on infinity. So, truly, what meaning does my, or your, life have?
There is no meaning and no big picture in our existence. It just doesn't matter. All that the scientists and all the progress we made till now, only matter to our world, but not to the hole picture. So, in the end, wen everything is over, and there is no human nor any documentation of our achievements. What meaning did they had than.
Even though we have no meaning and all we do is meaningless. There is meaning in our vanity, because we are meaningful for each other, all the achievements we have are meaningful to us. That is what keeps me going, the idea that things are meaningful to me and to others, even if they are meaningless in a hole.

Organized religion is yes a poison.
The idea of a organized religion, such as, Catholicism, Islamism, and basically all the main types of religion, is erroneous. The idea of going to a religious center that tells you what a deity whats you to do according to their interpretation of ancient books, already sounds ridiculous.
Any organized religion makes a kind of brain wash on their followers, and people are sometimes to blind to see.

Religion for sure is complicated to talk about so just keep in mind that this is my opinion, so it can be wrong.
Religion today is really a big deal, not more that before in the medieval time, but i think that if you are a religious representative such as the Papa, you have more power than many countrys around.
Religion can be a way of uniting people all around the world for one only cause, that can variate, for a common god, for a life stile, but can also be for non acceptance, chaos and deaf.
I think that the pure concept of each religion is beautiful, no religion talks about deaf, no religion talks about non acceptance. The big problem is that no religion seems to follow there truth meaning and goal. when you go to the catholic church it fells more like a brainwash than anything else.