A question for the faithful

[thrashbear]

A few weeks ago, cloudchaser_s asked why some Atheists tend to mock Christians.  It took me two weeks to come up with an answer in the form of three dozen GIFs harvested from Atheist Overdose, plus my own long-winded observations, spanning five or six LJ comments from the sheer amount of content.  The intent was to illustrate in pictoral form where the

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[equusmaximus]

I would consider myself more "spiritual" than religious, but I was raised Roman Catholic and you can never really quite get that all out of your system. That said, I really sit on the fence on this sort of issue, watching the extremists on both sides trying to outdo each other. I take considerable offense to so-called Christians who try to cram their morals and ideals down my throat, but at the same time I also take great offense to those who try to dismantle and "secularize" some of our greatest Christian traditions. Yes, I'm one of those crazy "Keep the Christ in Christmas" people - but not to the point where I'm going to try to convert people or thump them with a Bible. (I despise Bible-thumpers, actually

[danielcoon]

Great question. Thanks for posting it. I wish I could do a better job of answering