Billy Graham’s daughter: ‘I would not vote for an atheist’

[JDPriestly]

29. So she can't imagine being good without fear of punishment.

That's her problem.

Parable against Persecution or Parable on Brotherly Love

"Abraham sheltered a man, 198 years old. When Abraham learned that the man admitted he did not believe in Abraham's God, Abraham threw him out --
'And at midnight God called upon Abraham, saying, Abraham, where is the stranger?

And Abraham answered and said, Lord, he would not worship thee; neither would he call upon thy name. Therefore have I driven him out before my face into the wilderness.

And God said, Have I borne with him these hundred ninety and eight years, and nourished him, and clothed him, notwithstanding his rebellion against me, and couldst thou not, that art thyself a sinner, bear with him one night?"

From none other than Benjamin Franklin, "A Parable on Brotherly Love," 1755, Papers 6:124, as quoted in Benjamin Franklin, An American Life, by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster 2003 at page 196.