Looking at religion as a tool for the insecure (financially, emotionally, whatever) seems to miss the point, at least for the major religions. Buddhism answers

Looking at religion as a tool for the insecure (financially, emotionally, whatever) seems to miss the point, at least for the major religions. Buddhism answers the question "how do I deal with pain". Islam and Judaism answers the question "what does God expect from us" (at least that's what it seems to me from the outside). Christianity at its best answers the question "why am I here", to which the answer is that God made us like him to participate in his creation-project (see Gen 1). (Gen 3 shows how that got messed up, and the Gospels show how it got back on track.) More speculatively, it also seems like religion, at least some of theme, answers questions like "what is my place in the world", "how did we get here", "why does this exists", "how do I treat other people", which could maybe be broadly summarized "what is the meaning of life". I don't think these questions are going away with wealth. Wealth doesn't answer the question of purpose or meaning, nor does it answer the question of why we desire connection with other people but we don't seem to be able to do it very well. I suspect the West is getting a lot of surrogate religions that just aren't called by that name, such as "changing the world!!"/activism as an answer for the meaning of life.