I never said that. I'm just saying they probably will become one by their own choice. They have no self control. No moral base. No internal law. No ideal. As a man thinkith in his heart, so is he. If he feels he's a second class citizen - he is.
I have nothing to do with anyones choices. Why would you think I'm responsible for the lost? They chose their own path, and suffer the consequences by their own hands.
I'm not their judge or exicutioner, they are.
You are responisible for your actions - be they good or evil. Good with lead to a blessed life, evil will lead to a life of saddness and chaos. You chose whom you will serve.
Some have chosen the lost path, and today expect others to correct it for them, yet they still won't repent. Because of that we've become a nation of vileness and disease - complete with the tax slaves to financily support it.
Imagine a country without theft, murder, covetness, adultry, lies.....Is that so bad to have people at least read a list like this? What harm would it bring? Would someone read and understand the wisdom? Is that a BAD thing?
Thank you for admitting that you do think that non-Christians are second class citizens... If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same evidence of the fact as of most of those we act on, to wit: their own affirmations, and their reasonings in support of them. I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in Protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in Catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D'Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than love of God.I never said that. I'm just saying they probably will become one by their own choice.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814.