Talk:Spiritual Perfection/@comment-24.12.27.216-20130102005307/@comment-1705898-20130723185609

In most religions it's believed that the soul is the "real" human and that the physical body is just an layer, a vessel for the soul, i.e. not the actual human. Thus in religion its believed that evil exists in the soul (depending on the beliefs it can through the Original Sin or because the human soul is still in its childhood) and that by being good, doing selfless deeds and worshiping a certain deity the evil could be extracted. As for the powers it's because in various religions becoming a servant of what-ever-you-belief-in you gain power: ie Good equals Power.