A Deist wrote this?

[Cinjin]

So I take it, by the deafening silence, we agree that Protestants led the Enlightenment, from Newton to Payle, to Locke, to the Founders to the abolitionists, (Quakers and Methodists mostly), with help from 2 Catholics noted on the science side.

Voltaire we should give very little credit to, since he wrote a justification of slavery at the same time Wesley condemned it. Paine said virtually nothing a Protestant had not said before him

Fair enough?

deafening silence? This is a forum pal, not a chat room. You've got to give people time to work, sleep, eat and then get back to you. It looks to me like you get a lot of your information from your youth pastor. Try harder. When I see something worthy of my superior intellect, I will respond and you can subsequently feel foolish.

(I'm just bustin your balls with that last sentence ... but you can't hear my tone of voice, so my humorous mockery is lost.)