End Times - Man made gods Part 7

Cover for the short story series.

A meteor is predicted to hit Earth today. One person goes about their day like always while another spends it like their last. The first does what they always do, they help others, do their best to work out mistakes in their personality, and change their life for the better. The second does everything they do to repair their image. Before they were lazy and selfish, but now they try to be better people. Though the end appears to be near, the people the second interacts with doesn't take too kindly to their charity, but accepts the first's. Not wanting to be rejected, the second gives everything thee can to make it up to the people they want to impress and they're now indifferent to them. The meteor is supposed to hit the Earth soon and the second person scraps together a suicide method to avoid the pain of the coming apolcalypse. As for the first person, they stay with their family and friends and enjoy their time together. Because the Earth has several natural forces that protects it, the meteor burns up in the atomsphere and doesn't affect the Earth at all. The first person thanks God and goes about their day like always.
Now it's not to say other religious and non religious people who were like these two, but you could say that most religious people were. They have a real reason to constantly give and improve themselves not only to please God, but to make everything better around them for the salvation of others first and foremost and themselves last. What is the point of non religious people helping the lives of others? They operate by their own standards. They give humanity their own value that is different from your everyone else's. They might sacrifice themselves for others, but that's because they were taught to do that from religious people who know that sacrificing your life is a show of true love and strength. The non religious lack a fundamental reason to love and care for others. They have no reason to covert others to their shallow belief therefore they lack reason. That's not to say that all religious people will do the right things and to say that all religions have the right idea, but at least they have a piece of the truth. Make yourself gods if you wish by dictating what you think is the truth without a thought about what other people say or even what the one true God says. You'll just end up like the gods of old, forgotten and fake.