It is somewhat interesting for noting why this is the case, eg fMRI observations showing that praying activates the same brain regions as used when chatting to friends.

Didn't read the original paper yet, but I'd like to see some research on how these beliefs may shift at different times. For example, someone might say it's wrong to steal on Monday, but on Friday they might embezzle some money while murmuring 'god helps those who help themselves', balancing it out with an hour or two of being a poor sinner on Sunday before deciding they've been forgiven at the end of it. Stories of large-scale financial fraudsters often reveal a pattern of 'doubling down' and increasing the fraud in an attempt to use the money as capital for a superficially legitimate scheme designed to yield a large profit and allow the return of the money they 'borrowed'.

Julian Jaynes theorized that consciousness as we know it today developed out of a kind of low-grade schizophrenia in which people internalized social mores as religious voices prior to the kind of self-reflection we take for granted today.