It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.
Steven Weinberg
Source: cited by Michio Kaku in Parallel Worlds (2004)
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.