Religion's Effect on ALL of Us

Saying that comparing and contrasting the different religions and faiths that we covered last week is very difficult is a cop out, and I believe shows lack of insight and intuition. These religions, in regards to human nature, are all but entirely the same. When dealing with human nature, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, et al, say the same thing. Do what we tell you is right, what you are conditioned to believe is a 'moral center,' or burn for it. While 'burning' is sometimes literal (Christianity), the punishment for not following the 'correct path' is not all the same.
Human nature is indeed a social construction, because religion is, and always has been a social construction. Whether we want to accept this fact or not, but all religion is based on social aspects of society. Judaism, for example, came about when one man (Abram) decided to leave his homeland and create a new society, a new social group that followed a certain set of guidelines (not written down until the 10 Commandments). How is that different than the Pilgrims leaving their own society, first to the Netherlands, then to the New World. Their motivation was the same as Abram's, to practice the society they wanted.
This is hard to understand in the modern context because of the intense focus on the separation of Church and State. But before the Great American Experiment, this separation did not exist. Religion and social aspects of life were connected at the hip.
But what does this say about human nature? Whether you are Muslim, Roman Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, Atheist, Hindu, or follow the teachings of the Buddha, religion HAS had an influence in the way that your social construction, your human nature works. I am not saying that this is a bad thing and all humans are wrong in this set up, because I absolutely fall under this as well. What I am saying is that religion has had a definite imprint on all the societies of the world since the beginning of recorded history. Not limiting itself to the religions mentioned previously, but ALL religions from all history.