Like someone said above, the vast majority of people on earth are not enjoying t
he standard of living you're referring to. In fact, they're suffering precisely
because the few rich ones who *are* enjoying the above, while refusing to engage in the kind of altruism that is taught by religions. "All of God's creation is His family, and God loves most those who are good to His family", "Share with ot hers, even if all you have to share is one date", "Whoever covers up people's fa ults (instead of exposing them and gossiping about them to others), it's as if h e has given life to a child who was buried alive", "You will not enter Paradise until you have faith, and you will not have faith until you love each other", "I f there are three people, two of them should not talk secretly to the exclusion of the third (as the third will feel left out or talked-about)", "The white man is not better than the black man, and the black man is not better than the white man... people are only good based on the piety of their hearts", "Love for you r brother (i.e. your fellow human) what you love yourself, and dislike for him w hat you dislike for yourself", "Women are the twin halves of men", "The best of you are those who are the best to their womenfolk", "A person whose neighbor goe s to bed hungry while he sleeps on a full stomach is not one of us", "the best s truggle for the sake of God is to tell a tyrant ruler about justice", "God does not need anything of you, but He is not pleased with denial/ungratefulness of Hi s bondsmen, and if you are grateful, He is pleased with you", "Whoever receives guidance, does so for his own good, and whoever turns away from it does so to hi s own harm", "Have those whom they set up in place of God ever created anything like what God did, because of which the question of creation has confused to the m?", "A believer is one from whose tongue and hands others are safe", "A person of true faith is one whom the people can trust with their wealth and their lives ", "Were (humans) created from nothing, or have they created themselves?", "How wretched is the (person) who hoards (wealth); when there is inflation, he is hap py, and when prices come down, he becomes sad", And by the Zakat system of Islam : every one with a certain amount of yearly savings should give 2.5% of their we alth to the poor, and if they don't know any poor, they have to go out into soci ety and look for them. And charity isn't about dumping some funds to any old org anization and feeling good about oneself, but the best charity is the one that's given in secret so that noone else knows about it, in order to ensure that one' s heart is doing it purely for the good of it, without any expectations or ulter ior motives, and not because one vainly enjoys people's appreciation of their ge nerosity. I believe these are the real truths that set everyone free, and they a re taught by religion, and it is only because of the move away from religion tha t the world is seeing problems. And if you don't believe in the words of God or the prophets, that you make up your own gods and prophets, such as your own ego, your own self-created philosophies, or the words of some scientists, so you are not free either, but as bounded in your own ideologies as any religious person. But I have never found any of the above teachings in the books of people who de ny God.