"To accuse a person of a pure life as having unholy motives for rejecting the gospel may be to judge rashly as well as unrighteously.  

To measure the responsibility of a person who doubts or denies Christianity, we must first know the history of his mind; his capacity of judgment, the early influences and prejudices to which he was exposed, the forms under which religion and its proofs were first established in his thoughts, and the opportunities he has since had to remove those deeply prejudicial errors, which struck root long before he had the power of testing them. Perhaps I could say that to reject Christianity, knowing only of its corruptions, is rather a virtue than a crime."

In many homes today they have never heard anything of Christ or His pure religion other than the mocking and unholy interpretations of it as displayed on Saturday Night Live, or the repugnant display of sappy priests and pastors, or corrupt pedophiles, or severe and unjust tyrants as they are portrayed in movies and television; or the representation of God as a weak and vain tyrant appeased by mindless belief under the threat of everlasting torture fore-ordained as the fate for the vast multitudes of humanity.