I find it to be the mark of someone who has no confidance in their own morals. Even worse if they’re supposedly a “godly” person. Are you saying not even god’s tenants are worth defending to the death?! It is the reprieve of a spineless coward, IMO.

At least when said directly and literally.

Of course, you can always be amongst a bunch of brainwashed fools who will take a strong moral stance as a lack of morals, because they’re fucking idiots. In such a crowd, I could see saying such silly things as admitting without admitting. “schrodinger’s joke” sort of thing for the morally weak.