Are religious people selfish?

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I think religion generally represents selfishness. It usually states, under all the bullshit, that your fate is determined by your actions during this life. It's a means to an end. It may be that the things you're expected to do are sometimes good and "unselfish" things, but the motivation is still selfish. However, in reality, the religion is just a mirror for how the person thinks they should act anyway, with any inconvenient parts of the dogma edited out. (Assuming they are in a free-ish country.)

Of course, all behavior can be analysed and reduced to being ultimately selfish anyway. We act the way we do because the outcomes are what we think they should be, in some way or another.

Generally I'd say that if you gave me one random religious person and one non-religious, I wouldn't make any assumptions about who is more selfish.