I think these lyrics indicate that people who use guilt, pain and shame in order to abuse a person and to get them to agree with their opinions can never really get their message across in a meaningful way. The singer wants to be positive about life. Most of the time the people who say they have it all figured out have been damaged and guilty themselves. For example failing marriages, second marriages, addictions, lacking integrity in their dealings with others, etc. So what this is really about is judgement (perhaps religion perhaps not) and the singer isn't judging others because he is basically saying we are all damaged in some way. So why be hurtful to others?
I think these lyrics indicate that people who use guilt, pain and shame in order to abuse a person and to get them to agree with their opinions can never really get their message across in a meaningful way. The singer wants to be positive about life. Most of the time the people who say they have it all figured out have been damaged and guilty themselves. For example failing marriages, second marriages, addictions, lacking integrity in their dealings with others, etc. So what this is really about is judgement (perhaps religion perhaps not) and the singer isn't judging others because he is basically saying we are all damaged in some way. So why be hurtful to others?