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Frankly, I think that most religions are based on common sense, instead of vice versa. (Originally based on common sense, anyway.)
Find me a major religion that says it's okay to steal from your neighbor, or hurt your neighbor, or cheat on your husband or wife, or kill somebody just because you don't like them. You won't. Because a society in which those things were commonly allowed would collapse. (In those cases where people were abused commonly, as slaves, as even here in the U.S., the abusers have justified themselves by somehow seeing the people they're hurting as less than human. But the letter of their religion doesn't justify this.)
So the basic rules had to be arrived at early (by common sense) for any reasonable civilization to exist, and how better to enforce them than to make God, whichever one you believe in, the enforcer.
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