filtherton

It's all about thinking for yourself. Getting your opinion of right and wrong based on what the majority thinks is foolish at best, catastrophic at worst. Would you trust anything that you got from a large unorganized group whose only membership requirement was that someone had be a member of the species? The majority is a stupid, selfish, shorsighted, and easily swayed by shiny lights and pretty soundbites.

The golden rule at its core is secular, you don't need a diety to tell you that everyone treating eachother how they would like to be treated, assuming the majority aren't masochists, is a more compassionate and responsive society. The problem with getting your morals from a higher power is that often you are actually getting your morals from someone who claims to be able to interpret the desires of that higher power, instead of straight from the horse's mouth.