This is not fair to the core idea of EA. There are LOTS of ways to do good in the world, and sure, religion and various other cultural vessels encourage us to

This is not fair to the core idea of EA. There are LOTS of ways to do good in the world, and sure, religion and various other cultural vessels encourage us to pursue them. The original idea behind EA was to provide a way to choose between different ways of doing good. The fact that you wanted to and were going to "do good" was assumed.