In our world, we constantly encounter people who hold various statements to be true. Regardless of religion or lack thereof, most people hold the statement "Murder is (bad wrong, evil, unjust)" to be true. Are these statements more akin to statements like "apples are fruit" or more like "I like apples"?

Religious people have it simpler (not necessarily better). Murder is bad because God (or other entity) designates murder as evil. However, is it not still God saying " I don't like murder" or is he referring to a code of ethics outside of himself. Either option is not satisfying to most orthodox religious people.

As an atheist, I have no one to designate my values for me, other than my society (which where I live claims to get its values from Jesus). I may prefer not to be murdered or prefer others not to be murdered, but I can't apply this to some metaphysical system of cosmic justice. There are various secular ethical systems (Mill, Kant, Sam Harris), but again they simply offer mostly emotional or societac appeals to express their preferences.

Atheists are divided much more than religious people on ethical opinions. So is morality objective, subjective, or meaningless, and should atheists come to a consensus like religious people?