Must Atheists Trash Religion?

[Thomas Hurt]

35. American society is very tolerant of religion, particularly Christianity.

In fact, it is tolerant of Christianity to the exclusion of other religions to one degree or another.

1. Around 70% of Americans are Christian of one flavor or another, that is 210,000,000
2. There are Christian radio stations in every market in the US https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/googlmaps-proxy.php
3. There are numerous Christian publishing houses
4. There are Christian book stores in the US.
5. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a church.
6. This country has multimillion dollar mega churches, legacy denominational churches and small mom and pop churches.
7. This country has the huge Mormon church, which is Christian no matter how much others protest, that holds political and social sway over a whole state and parts of at least two others.
8. The Catholic church, is a powerhouse itself.
9. There is faith based initiatives office in the WH.
10. Christians hold around 90% of seats in Congress.
11. Christians have lobbyists in DC.
12. Christian websites and apologetics are rife on the internet.
13. Christian faiths of all kinds have TV shows on public access and cable networks.
14. No Christian is prevented from going to church.
15. No one is making a Christian get an abortion or use birth control.
16. No one is making a Christian marry someone of their same sex.
17. Congress has passed legislation to help protect, ostensibly all religions but they in practice protect Christianity almost entirely.
18. There are thousands of private Christian schools from kindergarten to universities in this country.
19. Christians are free to annoy others with their proselytizing.
20. Christians are free to leave this country and annoy foreigners with their proselytizing.
21. They are free to pray to themselves anytime.
22. They are free to pray in public aloud as long as it is not sanctioned by the government.
23. They are free to raise their children in their faith, they do not have let them watch worldly tv or listen worldly music or go to secular schools etc.
24. Churches don't have to pay taxes and yet receive the protection of our military, fire and police.


Am I correct in guessing that calling proselytizing annoying is shameless intolerance? Maybe calling Mormons Christian is? Is the state of tolerance attained when you STFU and say nothing about any religion?