This is an important observation, which I think should reveal just how inaccurate it is to blame "religion" in general for this mess. It is the drive to power, that mutates both religion and people into slaves of "the machine". It is, to look at it another way, a "religion" of it's own. One of modernity over "superstition". But with modernity, we have "disenchantment". The undoing of the animistic that has been looked down upon by us "moderns".

“According to Sherrard, an Orthodox Christian, it was certain developments in Western Christian theology, rooted in the teachings of St Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, which prepared the way for René Descartes and Francis Bacon to begin the work of disenchanting nature and dehumanising people. Augustine and Aquinas, says Sherrard, enabled the philosophical separation of humanity from the rest of nature, and the rest of nature from the divine. God became transcendent, not immanent, and permission was thus given for humanity to analyse and dissect nature and itself. When the post-Enlightenment thinkers removed God from the picture altogether, the stage was set for the worldview that now enfolds us: that of a natural world which is little more than a collection of ‘resources’ to be harvested by a rational humanity, which itself is now also open to scientific ‘improvement’.” —

Kingsnorth, Paul. Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (p. 71). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.