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In America, most Christians are taught from an early age (by their pastors and priests) that atheists are hateful people, that we’re perverts who reject God because we want a license to keep doing whatever we want.  For a lot of Christians the idea of not believing in God doesn’t even compute.  Pauls’ epistle to the Romans says in black and white that we have no excuse for not believing in him, and I can’t count the number of times I’ve had that thrown in my face.  I think that’s at the root of most of this.  The idea that someone can have moral values, be kind and considerate to his neighbors while at the same time doesn’t happen to have a belief in God is not something they can wrap their heads around.