Professor P.J. Stated " I don't feel a need to defend my beliefs to an atheist-I'm quite comfortable with atheists; my atheist friends and acquaintances respect me and I respect them."
There lies the key. Respect.
I feel the same way in the opposite direction.
I don't defend my non-belief to christians. I tell them what I think and why when asked.

They don't like to hear the rationale behind my views, so they almost always resort to the Holier than thou tactic.
"I'll pray for you"
Go ahead, what do I care? I don't believe in your god. It won't affect me in the slightest but if it makes YOU feel better,then go right ahead.
My experience has shown that though they preach it, very few christians show tolerance of other beliefs.
Those that do will get turned on by their own kind.
Ask yourself P.J. How many of your fellow christians think you are not a real christian because you respect other faiths even though only YOURS is the correct one?
You should be trying to save us all from damnation.
Then P.J ask yourself "Do you REALLY respect the athiests? Or are you just content to let them think what they want because you know you're going to heaven and they aren't?"
Do you feel threatened by the rational and logical approaches the athiests use to explain their views?
I don't raise a stink about our currency saying "In God we trust"
I don't cry about keeping religion out of schools.
In short, I don't feel threatened by the christian god anywhere because he doesn't exist.
If christians are threatened by what others believe it is only because they have doubts of their own regarding their faith and they don't want to hear anything that might bring those doubts to light, so they cry "Faith" and shut their eyes and minds.
If you don't feel threatened by athiests or other religions, then you are not a good christian. That is not my judgment, that's theirs.
Ask them.

Oh , and yes I did a spell-check,..but I refuse to capitalize "christian" or "athiest' because that denotes them as something other than words.

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