religion and claiming the moral high-ground

Good grief! I get so sick of religious people waffling on about how their religion is the source of morality and that their religion is what makes people good. It completely ignores the large number of good and moral atheists and it certainly doesn't take account of the many hateful religious people crowding this little planet.

I have lost count of the number of religious people who in honest perplexity have remarked to me that they don't understand how I can be a good person with a deeply held sense of altruism when I have absolutely no religious beliefs at all. It makes me shake my head in despair sometimes.

Why do people think that people should be good simply because some misguided superstition says they should? Why can't they accept that it simply makes good sense to help others?

Altruism just is the most logical way co-exist with your fellow humans.