Religion

I had this interesting question figured out in a dream(I'm generally an atheist and interested in the topic).
What is religion and how come its so powerful, popular and long-lasting? Is there any reality to gods?

gods are tulpa(being created as thoughtform) which feed from energy of their believers (faith/prayer/focus)
They all exist in same time until their followers stop interacting with them.
What you join active faith,you're basically feeding demons(demons with human nature and religion inspired characteristics) which want to do whatever they can to increase feed(it is combined power of belief and interested in more souls powering it). You can now imagine what believing in Cthulhu and focusing on it will do in the long run...

I'm also considering the possibility of movement as the cause for all purpose. When one stunts and drops to the ground it's not a value based equation of virtues needed, but rather a question of how to rationalize future steps. However this justifies questionable means used to achieve the goal, which may further along the way develop fully into ethical-egoism. It's predecessor would be nihilism which says that every choice is arbitrary. But I don't think most of us desire that sort of emptiness, so we break for a getaway and try to reinvent values without God, which proves to be futile because God was the origin of everything. The demise of the origin leads us to a search for something that endures and remains true in all situations - the prime attrubute of God -. Existentialism, the western world tries to create a shared platform of universally true morals but these morals turn out to have a shared demise; they remain arbitrary without a strong foundation. Like for example an institution with the authority and power to assess their validity. Like religion.