One of the issues here which I don’t think has been addressed is the difference between a principle based values system and an authoritarian based value system. Or we might say between a morality if principle and one of followership.
Most if the non Christian posters here—especially the atheist or agnostic ones—tend towards a principled or reasoned morality where they reason backwards and forwards from the kind if person they want to be or society they want to see and try to figure our which hard and fast rules conduce to that.
A religious morality tends to be authoritarian—its good or right because god has commanded it. Even if generally it is abhorrent it can still be religiously correct or necessary if god orders it. So we have Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac. We have God’s torment of Job. We have Jesus refusing to acknowledge his mother. We have theology and apologetics designed to explain away the way the basic rules (the ten commandments) may be bent or broken by people in power or at God’s command.
Just look at any authoritarian cult—look at evangelicals following Trump? Their hard and fast morality which rendered Clinton anathema for adultery went right out the window when they decided to back Trump and they justified it with reference to the bible and to the overriding principle that God doesn’t follow his own rules and can’t be held to then.
The statement “this is right action” and the statement “this action is right because god wills it” are very different.
I really despise the servile, rewards based, heaven focused nature of Christian morality. I despise a focus on sexual, patriarchal, norms of morality that make masturbation, divirce, and premarital sex sins but not the mass sexual and physical abuse of children.