****moral ideas not exclusively derived from their parents’ religion*****
If that isn’t the most illogical, brain dead statement...from an *intellectual* (???)
The moral code that has protected society from self-destruction and guided us to civil co-existence has been the Ten Commandments. They are the bases for our US Constitution and our laws.
Atheists and agnostics of conscience follow the TC rules and I am convinced they are thankful for them.
They may have a conscience, but the moral law they follow is to do whatever seems right to themselves. It is the curse of the Fall.