All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.