Picture a circular, mono-directional flow chart:
[Evil] -> [grounded empathy and love (TRUTH)] -> [Good] -> [Blind/ungrounded empathy and love (believing, buying, supporting LIES)] -> [Evil].

Think ouroborous...Evil being the head, consuming those subscribing to lies and following in blind love, thus creating the current that drives it.

Society/civilization/religion originally served to alter the dynamics of the cycle, allowing people to persist in Goodness by casting out those who were clearly incapable of resisting the current, and by consequence incentivized standing firm, somewhat bottle-necking the cycle. Modern society is a product of that dynamic changing and Good people being in much more constant interaction with 'the fallen' and the numbers increasing.

This is the war between Good and Evil, God and Satan from my (current) perspective. Heaven is when/where the cycle has been totally dismantled and everyone is 'stuck' at Good, the current/pull ceases. [In order for Hell to exist in this scenario it would seemingly require the removal of love completely, so I tend to think of that as a temporary/current term for those caught on the wrong side of the cycle. It's also possible this is bunk and heresy, but I'm throwing it out there.]

We all started Good, 'the fallen' fell into lies and deception, ultimately molding an 'Evil' counter-reality. Truth/accountability/confession and reflection offer a path back to Good.