Adams-"If all religion and all morality should be over-thrown"

"If [the] empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and all morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained? The doctrine of human equality is founded entirely in the Christian doctrine that we are all children of the same Father, all accountable to Him for our conduct to one another, all equally bound to respect each other's self love."
John Adams, early 1800's, a comment he made about Mary Wollstonecraft's book "French Revolution" as quoted in "John Adams" by David McCullough, pages 619.

Its too bad the secularists of today feel that they created the doctrine of human equality and therefore we no longer need the "superstition" of religion to support an absolute morality. Like, somehow we can all make up our own relative morality and equality will somehow fall out of the resulting morass of arbitrary value systems. Talk about superstition!