This is a point I have also made in a different form. “We hold these truths to be SELF-EVIDENT...ALL men...are endowed by their CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE Rights,”

You can complain all you want but those words are load bearing. That’s partly why this atheist says prayers. https://twitter.com/rubinreport/status/1357743442571370497

If one worships at the altar of pure reason one may also lead a noble life. In fact it is wholly possible that one may lead a better and more moral life than the pious hypocrite down the street. That’s not the problem. The problem is secular humanism coordinating and scaling.

When you hit the “why questions” over & over you have no last line of defense when a sociopath or crazy person openly tells you “What’s wrong with my redefinition of human flourishing? Why are you right and I’m wrong? Who died and made you the arbiter of truth? Why these rules?”

That’s bad enough. But the real danger is breakaway factionalism. What if entire groups of citizens find incompatible ideologies irresistible? What unifies them? How do you hold citizens together when multiple groups say “different people have different rights.” You need bedrock.