Currently, the diplomatic relations between Christians and atheists are a total disaster. Indeed, you might call the current situation a cold war.
On the atheist side, Richard Dawkins labels his critics “fleas” and his religious interlocutors “faith-heads.” Bill Maher laughs at the “religulous” (a portmanteau of “ridiculous” and “religious”). And many an average atheist dismisses belief in God as akin to belief in Santa Claus, Zeus, or an infantile “sky daddy.” Christians are dismissed as irrational, cognitively arrested, and emotionally insecure.
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