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You had me up to here: "LITERALLY COSTS NOTHING, HARMS NOTHING, AND CAN BE SUPREMELY THERAPEUTIC."
Religion has historically been extremely damaging to many groups of people including religious people themselves. Religion has caused wars, the persecution of: gay people, trans people, polygamous people, people of other religions, atheists and agnostics, scientists, and so on. It's also been used as a justification for monarchy, slavery, caste societies, and fascism. It leads to all kinds of crackpot conspiracies including modern flat earthers. It's caused more harm than pretty much any other idea in human history, other than perhaps money.
From my perspective religion is a kind of mass delusion. Delusions aren't always harmful, and provided they are benign it might be better to just let them be. This stops the moment those delusions become harmful to either the person having the delusion or the people around them. If your religion harms no one including yourself then that's a-okay by me. Otherwise we need to disabuse you of it as quickly as possible, or at least try and replace it with a harmless delusion if reality is too painful to bare.
Comparing religion to celebrity worship isn't a good argument to make. Celebrity worship isn't a positive thing either, and imo needs to happen a lot less. It's a bit like saying thing b is bad so why care about bad thing a? I dislike harmful religions and harmful celebrities.
Also I don't care about Christianity in particular. I don't consider islam or Judaism to be good either. Nazis were not atheists, and any religion that causes harm is a problem.