Hard-wired into human nature? I am sure not. It may be human nature to look for broader perspectives, at least absent certain traumatizing factors, I guess. But to move from that to the generation of religion requires significant components of either fear, a hunger for power not otherwise accessible, a desire for real estate (cf SRS above) OR a degree of spiritual sensibility which is capable of at least a little transcendant perception beyond the range of normal meat-body mechanisms.

There are plenty of purely nacherl humans who have none of the above and don't much mind about religion.

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