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The problem is they have a hard time saying what.
Intuition. Terminal values.
You'd be amazed what can seem intuitive when you find yourself in a situation where it would be really convenient for Joe to die.
That would mean that atheist morality is context dependent, for instance applying different standards at peacetime and wartime. Historically, Christian morality serms to be similar.
For all that Christian moralists criticize situationalist ethics, I've found that all ethical systems inevitably end up being situationalist; i.e. "thou shalt not kill" except when God commands otherwise.