A discussion around family table.

[Rwandrall]

They have never lived outside of Paris, never went anywhere outside of France for over a month. For them things are purely black and white. Immigrants are bad. Atheists are soulless. Priests are holy men.

You mean your bigoted parents live in Paris ??? It's know fact that religiousness is inversely proportional to the size of the city where one lives, so I expected them to live in some rural area or small town.
How can they be such bigot when they live in such a cosmopolitan city ?

Paris is actually separated in clearly defined areas, just like most major cities and they live in a quite wealthy one. They never actually encounter people from other cultures except on the bus or the subway. They are in a very strict social group that shares the same values and ideas, so this doesn't come as much of a surprise. In France, actually, many really intelligent and educated people have strong religious ideas. My father, for example, went to our equivalent of Stanford and has a PHD in Maths, but he still is a religion nut. But they are other kinds of Christians, the ones that accomodate their faith to what's better for them...still better than creationists imo.