We do good because it feels good to do good, but also because evolution allowed us to develop empathy.
We feel a natural need to help other people because we hope that other people would help us if we needed it to.
"Today, you. Tomorrow me".
We hold the door to strangers, help them carry stuff, or pick them up they have a flat tire, and none of that requires the existence of a vengeful god who will send us into a lake of eternal fire if we don't comply to his wishes. We help each other because we are a social species.
We do it because most people on this planet are good people who want to be happy and who want people around them to be happy.
Religion and gods are unnecessary for any of this.
We feel a natural need to help other people because we hope that other people would help us if we needed it to.
"Today, you. Tomorrow me".
We hold the door to strangers, help them carry stuff, or pick them up they have a flat tire, and none of that requires the existence of a vengeful god who will send us into a lake of eternal fire if we don't comply to his wishes. We help each other because we are a social species.
We do it because most people on this planet are good people who want to be happy and who want people around them to be happy.
Religion and gods are unnecessary for any of this.