Reply #24: Not at all. The only time I go for atheists is when they force their opinions

[Joe Chi Minh]

on the Christians and agnostics here. To express respect for a belief you are personally hostile to would be madness. It's a matter of sovereign indifference to me what you believe, unless and until the very unlikely eventuality that you show any interest in what I believe. Why should it not be reciprocal? But the odd thing is that most of the atheists on here, instead of sounding very contented, always sound deeply bitter and unhappy, to the extent they have to vent their spleen on anyone, for instance, who presumes to say anything positive, however informally religious, about Christ, as Nance Gregg did. Even though it was hedged about with disclaimers regarding his Church, etc. The unbelievably infantile, hectoring responses had to be seen to be believed.

There's a world of difference between not personally respecting someone's opinion, and adopting an aggressively insulting tone in an unsolicited response to someone who clearly would not be interested in your opinion, even if it were intelligently and politely expressed - and they mostly aren't on here. I think they're mostly school-kids, who are notoriously prone to be bitterness and self-pity.