Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.