text: If you're a new visitor to most any Christian church, the odds are high that the first questions which you will be asked, are "Are you saved?" and "Have you been born-again?".  To fail to answer in the affirmative to either will make you the immediate target of every zealot in the congregation, who will immediately become intent on "fixing you".  So, factually true or not, most will at least not deny being saved and born again, simply out of self-defense.  Being "saved" and "born-again" are the current "shibboleths" of contemporary Christianity.  By your various postings, it would be reasonable to infer that whatever religious history that you may have, that you have failed to grasp some of the fundamentals.
  
  And to answer your question:  "Why the hostility to being asked simple questions?" Some of your "questions" have the air of an inquisition.  Not seeking clarification, but rather to provoke.  That may not be your conscious intent, but it is often the impression that I get.