And yes: "absence of correlation" between the sayings of Sages and the daily activities of those who claim to follow their Principles.

And always, for perspective -
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"
--Mark Twain

Forgive my reading
The idea that man is good leads to disasters.

The idea that man is bad leads to ... what we have now.
as a generalization hardly suggestive of any remedy, other than 'conserving' the status quo -- because it Works So Well.

Still, even the idea of capitalized- Good, Bad - mandates a higher scale 'Objective' 'Morality' (whether imposed from Above or 'interpreted' via some Acolytes of Mr. Above). And all of Western religiosity seeks that Authority, searches "outside" .. for that which is manifestly "inside". Natch - nothing can be done with or perhaps.. because of such assertions. cf. alt-religion or other mosh pits.

All I mean is (what I said)
The species remains stuck in the dregs of an attitude towards the umm ineffable which is based upon earliest fear-based atavism. Primitives constructed a Deity with human quirks, a One demanding perpetual adoration .. and a One instantly capable of horrific retribution. Ever thus - since.

It's still ALL ABOUT FEAR and about the anthropomorphizing of the Unknowable - to accommodate limited homo-sap jelloware - which is even more obtuse, in mob form.
('Love' may be closer to the OS of that ineffable Cosmic Unknowable - but many humans screw up even that magnificent Idea(l) just as badly as they did with the duelling MyGodIsGreater construct.)

I figure - we'll outgrow that infancy, and pretty soon -?- or kill selves off in mid-adolescence. Pretty soon. [Some are, and currently: Longing for Just That denouement + 'My' Face-time with #1]

Flip coin.