What Is The Essence Of All Religions,Their Common Denominator?

The answer to the above question is to me deafeningly clear and obvious: they all preach the insignificance,inefficacy,absurdity and paltriness of the individual and the need for the latter to deny itself in the sacrifice to the greater good ie anything or any one other than itself.It is a self denying,decrying, abnegating ordinance.In a recent church service on the radio over christmas this message screamed out from every lesson from the preacher during the mass service.Forget your self,serve others,deny yourself,the self is an egotistical illusion, you are only truly really alive when you subsume your interests and devote your life to the service of others.All earthly considerations are trivial,the pursuit of wealth futile,only giving and sacrificing will bring true meaning and harmony to your otherwise. miserable existence.It is very hard to see how this message differs from the secular philosophy of the age, namely Socialism,collectivism,the sacrificing of the individual to the group,the common good except that in this version God is replace by his earthly substitute the State but the underlying theology is identical: self sacrifice as the highest human good.Conservative Christians may vehemently object to this analysis but you do not have to listen to them that long to know that they subscribe t the self same philosophy,namely that altruism,the sacrificing of the self to others is a noble thing.This explains why for 60 years since the inception of the welfare states across the Western world we have not heard a peep out of them in challenging the ideology behind this collectivist movement of welfare statism and they have gone along in collusion with its assumptions and implementations,only seeking here and there to amend some of its more egregious and extreme applications but never challenging its altruist Christian based roots, fundamentals and provenance.