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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm with the OP.  I know a huge number of physicians, scientists, professors, psychologists, etc. who consider themselves Christians (mostly Episcopalian or something else liberal and mainstream).  Though I'm not Christian myself I can't help but notice that these are very smart, very accomplished people so I have trouble dismissing them as idiots, as so many atheists seem to do.  [b]I also can't help but notice that the atheists among my friends are entirely respectful of Jews and Muslims but entirely disdainful of Christians.  It seems a bit hypocritical to me.[/b]

So, OP, I'd like to know this too and I too find it difficult to ask even close friends.

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You have Evangelical Christianists and their stranglehold on American politics to thank for that.  If your friends lived in a country where sharia law was rigidly enforced by some Islamic shadow justice system, I'm sure they'd resent them as well.  As it is, Jews and Muslims (and Mormons, or any small religious minority) are usually quite modest in their claims to the public sphere. It's when they begin to dominate that suddenly they being throwing their weight around, as you see ultra-Orthodox in Israel, or Muslims in Afghanistan.

No hypocrisy there.
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