there is Instinct, Causality, Intelligence and what Noah Yuval Harari calls "stories" ( religion, morality, philosophy etc. )

Instinct and Causality are fixed.  We can't change the fact that men want to rape women or that everybody who is born also dies.  Intelligence varies from individual to individual and group to group.  Stories are altogether very different in different groups, yet some elements are common.

The two main stories that Israelis are based on are Holocaust and being God's chosen.  Both total BS.  But stories usually are.  the Christian story is about Jesus and Immaculate Conception and all that, and the Woke-ist story is about Polar Bears, Fauci, George Floyd and other BS.

So really all stories are BS and all instinct is Animalistic or Tribal at best.  Nothing special about religions - it's just one story.

Assuming the instinct isn't broken ( it's broken in Sadists and Sociopaths ) then it's just down to intelligence.  People of low intelligence will take Stories to absurd extremes whereas the intelligent will only use stories to blend into the society without taking them seriously.

Suffering is ultimately caused either by broken instinct or insufficient intelligence, whereas all stories are shit.