| Two reasons. Finding fault with others distracts us from looking at our own faults.
You get the morning newpaper and like god you judge all the wrongs of the world, by contrast your little wrong-doings seem unimportant and so by comparison (law of relativity) you are almost a saint.
Next is that religions know people will unite to fight a common enemy, so they find a cause or person that they can tag as "the evil". Then they get people to join the "good cause" to overcome that evil target. And in joining the people feel they are the good guys. And the church get more members and more donations for making people feel good about their purpose in life.
In the passion to fight evil the emotions of anger and hatred can manifest.
Resulting in them becoming someone else's evil. And that effects a chain reaction with potentially unending momentums of hatred and fighting. And all become the evils of hatred and they do not even see what that got caught up in as being evil. |