Hell and God cant Co-exist.

[madog]

  That some people are so perturbed by it and feel they have to be dicks to people who believe different, boggles my mind.   

/rand over. (I've been having a lot of those)

I promise I will treat everyone with respect, but I do note I come from a privileged position being in the UK.

The dark days of persecution of atheists has virtually disappeared here and for several decades.

I don't think that can be said about the US .... some of your evangelists I have seen are pretty radical and frightening .... from stories I have heard the admission of atheism can lead to loss of jobs, children excluded from school activities, etc etc.

So with your (misplaced) Christian understanding it should be expected that some atheists can be like kids in a sweet shop, out of the glare of the more radical evangelists , and do have grounds for some apprehension when they are followed into the only refuge   

Dog.