"I haven't seen much anti-Christian bigotry here."

Nor me, I've only seen people (including myself I admit) reacting to barely veiled preachery about the "End Times".

I think the major problem is, that the majority of perfectly reasonable and moderate Xstians get a bad rap because of a *minority* of *highly voluble* extremists, who go around shouting about how Obama is an evil anti-Christ, how gays should be impaled on roasting spits in hell, and how brilliant it will be when the world blows up and everybody (except them) burns in boiling seas of blood. These very LOUD, terrifying and politically aggressive "Xtians" give real Christians (and even real christians without the big C) a bad name. People react poorly to this hate filled stuff, and thus "Christianity" as a whole, gets it in the teeth as a consequence.

My Gran was a devoted life-long Catholic (as are others in my Irish family), and bar her taking me to Mass once when I was a kid, I simply never heard her talk religion. Which is how it should be IMO. I've followed my own path spiritually, and while my personal beliefs probably wouldn't look much different to JC's teaching in the New Testament if I were to detail them, that's my business.

I initiated a thread about Christianity recently and there was precisely ZERO antagonism or unpleasantness - which for me proves that there is plenty tolerance enough here, even among the 'fiercely atheist' *smile*. In fact I thought it was a rather interesting discussion, and could have continued as such - though I failed to keep refreshing it: Varieties of Christianity