That religion perhaps helped to bootstrap early societies doesn't mean that it continues to be useful after that job is done - once the BIOS hands over to a proper OS, we don't need to call into the BIOS to do I/O anymore, since the OS does a much better job.
That analogy doesn't work for me. If anything, we'd have to look at every individual human as a system to be "booted" with the same OS. So they have a common API. But that's not an area where you'd want to use technical metaphors.
I think what you're trying to say is that we've got better tools than religion now. My approach here is to broaden the meaning of religion. As I said before every society needs common beliefs to function. I refer to those beliefs as religion. But I can accept if this is too broad for some people.
