This is somewhat a variant of the cooperate situation in the prisoners dilemma.

I find it interesting to dress it up in religion, because the optimal situation is to defect, and if everyone knows the game, you get a worse outcome. Religion can cause people to be selfless and you get a better outcome for most people.

I've always thought to teach people religion, but defect yourself. In a modern secular world, teach everyone ascetic stoicism. Myself, follow some sort of Machiavellian/Nietzsche/hedonism.

The optimal decision in the Prisoner's Dilemma is to defect, but in the iterated version, where multiple Dilemmas occur and people remember previous results, Tit-For-Tat is optimal. The real world is even less reminiscent of the Dilemma, so it's not at all clear that the Dilemma's conclusion applies.

(Tit-For-Tat: Prefer cooperating, but if the other person defected on the previous turn, defect on the current turn.)

Ignoring myth and belief differences

The purpose of the article and the story above was simple - you and I are the same ultimately

The golden rule is just that- when we recognize ourselves in others we act to minimize pain in others as we would to ourselves

Imagine the world as a one person play with each role played by the same person but in different costumes: you

So you're a liar and degenerate psychopath.