They lack both granularity and actually adhering to their philosophies.
Religion is a source of some strife, but also has positive effects on society. Nothing is all good or all bad, isn't that the whole point of moral relativism?
Having spent approximately half my life in a religious right part of the country and the other half in a secularist left part, I can comfortably say that the main problem is that people do not put enough thought into whatever philosophy they spend their time around. It's the "fish don't know they're in water" problem.
Many lay Christians (and many in church authority) have trouble providing any practical justification for why someone should adhere to the faith. To an engineer sort like myself, if something is true it should also be useful (and more useful than things that aren't true); and I had trouble getting good answers as to the utility of church teachings. Especially when "uncomfortable" truths like "women should not be in positions of leadership" were raised.
Secularists spend too little time actually thinking through their personal philosophy. If you reject all the pre-packaged ones and believe it's possible for all moral positions to be reasoned into, it's incumbent on you to do so. Yet almost no one does this or even attempts to do so, or even really understands that's something they need to do. Instead it's just minor tweaks to whatever the mainstream at the time is, which leaves one directionless when that mainstream changes.
They lack both granularity and actually adhering to their philosophies.
Religion is a source of some strife, but also has positive effects on society. Nothing is all good or all bad, isn't that the whole point of moral relativism?
Having spent approximately half my life in a religious right part of the country and the other half in a secularist left part, I can comfortably say that the main problem is that people do not put enough thought into whatever philosophy they spend their time around. It's the "fish don't know they're in water" problem.
Many lay Christians (and many in church authority) have trouble providing any practical justification for why someone should adhere to the faith. To an engineer sort like myself, if something is true it should also be useful (and more useful than things that aren't true); and I had trouble getting good answers as to the utility of church teachings. Especially when "uncomfortable" truths like "women should not be in positions of leadership" were raised.
Secularists spend too little time actually thinking through their personal philosophy. If you reject all the pre-packaged ones and believe it's possible for all moral positions to be reasoned into, it's incumbent on you to do so. Yet almost no one does this or even attempts to do so, or even really understands that's something they need to do. Instead it's just minor tweaks to whatever the mainstream at the time is, which leaves one directionless when that mainstream changes.