Goodness Does Not Come from the Heavens

I am currently reading Michel Onfray’s “Atheist Manifesto” (The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam).
And there’s one idea that I find quite striking. Goodness does not come from the heavens.
Allow me to paraphrase this unconvenitionally beautiful insight from Onfray. Goodness is a choice made by men. It is not a divine distant gift from up above. [...]