Shouldn't Atheists learn to accept religion?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Ig,

The two don't separate as easily as you make it look in my opinion. A person's beliefs often become a part of their personal identity, and once they are an integral part of your self image, maybe you partly draw your sense of self-worth from them (who am I? a believer, servant of God - this justifies my existence /actions/life choices and gives me a purpose beyond mundane things), an attack on these ideas is in fact an attack on the person. The two things don't factorize, a physicist would say. Disagree?

The intermeshing of self and belief is terribly hard to unwind.