Quote of the Day

The humanist Enlightenment was the catalyst for Jesus' empathy time bomb, the message of inclusion for the excluded.  The Enlightenment came to Europe through philosophers like Voltaire who were influenced by the ethics Jesus taught.  Eventually these ethics -- as reinterpreted by secular Enlightenment philosophers -- caused countries like Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Holland and Norway to become places where being young, female, sick or old isn't such a bad thing,

-- Frank Schaeffer, Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God, p. 58