[esailija]

Actually the belief that you're good or "doing altruism" is exactly the kind of thing that would cause a person to do such evil things.

If we take bible metaphorically it's pretty smart because believing you are a inherently unworthy sinner will actually encourage you to do good things instead of the opposite which just causes people to do evil things and virtue signal.

Basically "But we're the good guys" <- that's how you know who is truly evil.