Because we are?

David Lahti of The Guardian asks why religion keeps telling us that we're bad.

Two answers come to mind.

The first is that since God is the standard, only a person with a really inflated ego would dispute that conclusion.

The second is that, unlike many on the secular Left, those of the Judeo-Christian tradition are both paying attention, and reasonably self-aware. It would appear that, while those like Mr. Lahti are asking what does and does not make evolutionary sense, the great Western religions are actually basing their conclusions on the evidence of history and human experience rather than dogma.

Imagine that.

Oh. And one more thing: one of the consequences of getting caught up, as our secular society has, in brain-dead post-modernism and amoral utilitarianism is that you kind of lose any standard by which one might form reasonable judgments about stuff like "good" and "evil." It's kind of like abolishing color, and then trying to describe a sunset.