Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?

[Esquilax]

Who knew that how you get into heaven is just a "peripheral" difference?  

I'm on pins and needles waiting to hear the explanation for that.

We actually already have it, from page 23 of Delicate's other thread, on biblical interpretations:

Second, if Christianity is true, then it must be true that there is an afterlife, so to speak. And one's well-being in the afterlife and relationship with God is of utmost importance. Someone who concedes that Christianity is true (even for the sake of argument), will have to concede (once again, for the sake of argument) that the latter two theological notions follow. In fact, one might make the claim that it is an ethical obligation to care for one's afterlife and relationship with God.

So on the one hand, the afterlife and how one fares in it is of the "utmost importance," but on the other, whenever christians differ on their beliefs on that issue, those are just "peripheral beliefs," that don't really matter at all. Right.