I don't know. Religion is part of human tribal tendencies.

Humans tend to need to know who is in-group and who is out-group to know who to trust. They need to think they are the favored ones to justify taking resources from others who are "less than" in their view.

Religion is just one tool humans use to justify both their bad and good behavior, but it is a dominant one.

There is no yin without a yang.

There is no victory without a defeat.

There is no winner without a loser.

Something in humankind needs to be the cream of the crop. The song Another Brick in the Wall resonates for a reason.

If you are unable to be the toast of the town, don't have the stuff, the desperate resort to making others look worse than themselves so they look better in comparison, or, as a wise saying goes . . .

"Some people blow out other people's candles in order to make their own appear to be burning brighter."

Sounds like the Mormons and a lot of other religions to me.

There is no God's chosen people with God's not chosen people.

The question you should have asked.

Define "succeed" or do you mean "survive"?

There's a quaint, old-fashioned term for this that is fading from common parlance: "sin."

Probably not since it is based on a good guy versus bad guy scenario. This allows the radical element to come to power and forcibly interfere with the rights of everyone else

Of course it can. Mormonism happens to be pathological.

Religion cannot exist without their imaginary enemies.

Darth Vader is imaginary. That doesn’t mean his archetype isn’t real. The Star Wars franchise is a quasi-religion. It doesn’t preach bigotry and hatred. In fact, science fiction has been on the forefront of social change. It’s like religion for people who hate religion.

As much as I hate star wars and its religion called "the force".

Apparently not

No.

The whole basis for modern religion is the insistence that there is a realm beyond our senses that has unimaginable power to affect pour lives. That is what keeps being challenged by, well, observable reality. So religious people always feel they are under attack, and they will turn their vitriol against anything or anybody who tries to present a different point of view. So no, religion in 2020 cannot exist without hatred.