In my opinion-
One reason why a secular/atheistic person agrees with about 90% of what a religious person would find immoral, is because what we consider morality is really common sense, and it really is stuff that we should know if we actually spent two seconds thinking about it. The rest is the "if you don't perform ritual A or praise deity B, you are a sinner" stuff which makes it faith rather than common sense. And then of course we focus solely on our differences instead of our commonalities, and the perception of a larger division in society exists, when we should be living in relative harmony.
One begins with the premise that we do not know and must discover, the other begins with the premise that we do know and must reject other theories. They are totally incompatible.Originally Posted by The Stranger
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