Okay, fellas, it's time to come clean. What women are to men intellectually non-Catholics are to Catholics. If atheist, sometimes their total neglect of the Faith leads them to some Truth, but invariably they end up in some cul de sac of self-conceit and delusion. Agnostics write like every sentence is its own approximation of confusion. Protestants write like a hollow drum, beating a death march to nowhere and going fast. Jews contradict every central ethic they seem to hold genuinely. Muslims write like maniacs who forget the rules of syntax but yet must use grammar because of some unknowable curse of reality. Seculars write like dried out corpses that got one too many tattoos of medical terms on their rib-cage. The prose of Proust, Chateubriand, Bloy, O'Connor, Theroux, and Shakespeare, to name a few, have been kissed by a grace in a way that talent can neither immitate nor can practice and talent attain. Your faith determines your prose--no exceptions.