The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.

Wolfe contrasts an older, more prescriptive moral culture with a newer social ethic of tolerance—“live and let live.” He frames this shift not merely as secularization but as a positive liberation from religious authority over private life, suggesting that pluralism and personal autonomy have expanded rapidly. The remark also carries Wolfe’s characteristic interest in cultural mood and status codes: “attitude” signals a broad, ambient norm rather than a formal doctrine. Implicitly, he treats the change as historically notable—values can pivot within a generation—and as evidence that moral regulation can migrate from religious institutions to individual choice and social noninterference.