To strive to be "good" for God, in order to prove oneself worthy of salvation, is to engage in a form of performative act of kindness. Performative acts of kindness are not genuine acts of kinds, because they depend upon a need for approval. People conditioned to equate actions with group of "church" or community approval are highly susceptible to equating actions that are approved of by a community or church as being "moral," even when the whole community is burning witches and crucifying heretics. Whenever we are engaging in an action that is dependent upon a reward or approval from a God or a group, we are engaging in performative art masquerading as altruism. Between acts of kindness that are engaged in without expectation of reward or approval and acts of kindness that are in anyway related to or connected with approval of worthiness, the former is morally superior, even as a belief in the Christian brand of God hols up the latter as the moral ide