Well maybe they're the same person or somehow related because the tenets of that link I posted touched on the same stuff.
It might be worth digging into the second or maybe fifth page of the google results to find something that actually relates to St. Thomas Aquinas.
I've known catholics who love his writings so much they will define him as the defense of their faith: "Any religion that can produce an Aquinas has just got to be True."
Even Protestants go to his writings to find support for their faith. Its a genre of philosophy called Apologetics, meaning pure exercises of reason intended to comfort the faithful.
modern christian apologetics has some fair proponents too. I always find the offerings of RZM, Robbie Zacharias Ministries, worthwhile.
atheistic apologetics is a fairly active discipline too. Take One Brows' blog for example.
I can understand the view you take as well, in that you argue you've been "impressed" that the way things should be is just that everybody should leave everybody else alone.
competition and proselyting for converts in the realm of faith might just be a healthy way for humans to exercise their social skills, and might be a sign of a healthy community, as long as we generally uphold the individual freedoms of speech, religion, and an agreement that the government should not be in the business of standardizing human belief.
The atheist's/agnostic's perceived "corner" on discussions in public schools and in the public square has worked like a rock in the public shoe to provoke an outcry for "so just why can't we talk about our faith, too?"
The claim that government sanction of atheism is required by the concept on "no establishment of religion" is going to become a harder thing to defend as time goes on and more people recognize atheism and agnosticism as defined positions of human belief which also should not be state-sanctioned beliefs.
We'll all be happier if we can just laugh more about the things we have to offer "Apologetics" for. . . .
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