Are some theists afraid of atheists?

[Astonished]

Well FWIW I wasn't thinking of you, or any other theist on this site for that matter, in my own reply to this thread... I was thinking of the sort of theist that wouldn't dare set foot on a site like this and engage with atheists, like some I know.

As to your cultural problems with atheism... how do you figure all of those?

Because I believe none of those values can be sustained by paradigms that devolve into nihilism, which is where atheism leads. Without some kind of transcendent reference point none of those values can be rationally justified.

Well, you're fucking retarded to believe that. Your worldview is the one where this life should be nothing but a meaningless devolution into nihilism because if you believe in an afterlife, this life is worthless and should be looked at as something to discard as quickly as possible. Those who don't believe in an afterlife cherish this life as precious because of that, not the other way around, dickhead, that's just your stupid-ass tendency to project your own faults onto others yet again. Your imaginary friend as a 'rationally justified transcendent reference point' is similarly asinine, as you can't get two theists to agree exactly on everything about what their imaginary friend decrees, or they subjectively choose to ignore the parts that don't appeal to them. No different than making up your own set of rules and values, which we all do (your dipshit ass included), based on common fucking sense. If you don't want to call that rational, well, you're already wrong about everything else, so knock yourself out and be wrong about that too.