[AdamDX]

Finally someone else said it! If you look at a bunch of religions, it basically gives guidelines on how to create a basic society, you have rules that create social cohesion like "Don't steal or kill" type of stuff. The reason why Religion looks like Government, is because it probably is a primitive form of government before we had global / instantaneous communication over long distances. It was a way to control the masses and get them to submit to a higher power (the government or nation through God).