Religious versus Spiritual

Whenever I hear one person say "we are born with an innate sense of 'goodness'", and another person say "without religion, there would be no check against our 'evilness'", I think that the first person forgot that they were born into a world that is already rooted in religion, and therefore grew up in an environment that is inescapable from its influences, and I think that the second person forgot that religion came from us, not divine providence, so its influences likely stem from an innate understanding of 'goodness', as surely as its perversions likely stem from our inadequate understanding. And then I remember that categorization is yet another fault in our thinking, as both of the actors depicted above likely have views that are along a spectrum of infinite granularity, and therefore always gray. And even here, some would say 'grey' ;-)