Lumping together "westerners" on this issue is bizarre.

The ones most worried are the militant atheists who despise any religious beliefs, including Christian ones. They are the most intolerant of any religious beliefs, and their numbers are growing.

Less rigid atheists and gnostics, or people with moderate religious beliefs themselves, don't automatically reject others with religious beliefs, on the contrary.

That may seem incomprehensible in the non-western world though, a conflict between a very strong, militant atheist group, and a moderate middle...