Are some theists afraid of atheists?

[Neo-Scholastic]

Isn't it natural for a Christian to feel sad that some people will never know Christ? Isn't that preferable to indifference?

Well, I was mostly referring to when you said this: "At the cultural level I believe that atheism is a corrosive and undermines the core values of Western civilization such as human dignity,  civil rights, aesthetic hierarchies."

I see it as a blanket statement because there are a lot of atheists who are humanists and who value human life, believe in human rights, and do good things for their communities through charity and volunteering.

My statement was about atheism as an intellectual position and cultural phenomenon. It is critique of ideas and says nothing about the character of any individual atheist. I applaud the convictions of atheists who preserve and promote Western values. I simply do not feel their convictions rest on a very firm intellectual foundation. In other words, they believe the right things for the wrong reasons.