Well, it is a normal thing to show respect for other people when you're in their house (figuratively speaking). It isn't their beliefs you are then showing respect for, necessarily, it's they themselves that you are showing respect for by not judging them on the basis of their beliefs and not interfering in the normal things that they are accustomed to doing in their own house...by according them their right to be whom they choose to be.

It's what you would want them to do if they were in your house (again, figuratively speaking).

Now, when fanatics and fundamentalists try to shove their religious beliefs down someone else's throat...well, then it bothers me just as much as it does you, I assure you!

I don't care what religion people belong to...or whether they have no religion at all...I just care about whether they are willing to live and let live and not force their own beliefs on everyone else. When they do that, they've crossed the line.

My feeling with Dawkins is that he's an anti-religious fundamentalist. He's got a big chip on his shoulder about the whole thing, and it causes him to see only the bad aspects of religion. As such, he's deeply prejudiced, in my opinion. Such people are troublesome, whether or not they are religious.