Some thoughts on evil.
There is God, and there is not-God. Everyone is born part of God, and, at points throughout their lives, choose to break away from God. They can come back to God; with varying degrees of sucess based on how far away from God they have broken. In this, I don't think of God as a parent; who's job is to teach children to be separate beings. I think of God more as the fabric of our existance, the culmination of matter and energy. Breaking with God doesn't diminish God, any more than two half cups of water is still one cup of water. It is only a separation. Not-God is a high; an empty high, lonely. To break with God is to break with one's own humanity. It is the focus of one person on himself over the rest of mankind; the rest of God, as it were.
God is also a high, which is why there is so much religion.
God is also a high, which is why there is so much religion.