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.
"Raise your children up in the way they should go, so when they grow old they will not depart from it".
They must have had parents who were a rightous influence. Imagine if they were raised by liberals.
Doesn't matter how good and enlightened they were!
All the philosophes are roasting on spits in H*ll right now!
Just thought I'd get that in to save bandwidth ;)