I cannot understand anyone who "can't stand to be around a belief that is not his own." That includes atheists. When I was a junior in high school my father was sent to India with an agriculture aid program called Point 4. The purpose was to help the Indian government build an agriculture extension service similar to our system. In the US they work for one or more Universities and the US Dept of Agriculture in a cooperative program. Almost as soon as we got to the Hotel in New Delhi I took a train with others from the Delhi area which hooked up with other cars from all over India and Pakistan and ended up in Dehra Dun where we took buses to Mussoorie where we had our luggage transported by mule and we walked about 4 miles to the boarding school I attended. It was an adventure of a life time, except for the school food
The whole adventure was great from attending such a fine school to living in Lucknow where the family was situated to spending time in the Colonization Projects in which the government was building homes and clearing farmland for the refugees from Pakistan after the partition.
I went to school with Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jain, Christians, Buddhists and Jewish and in our home we had a Hindu Bearer, a Muslim Cook and a Christian houseboy who was called a "sweeper". He was of the untouchable group but was actually the most educated of the bunch. We also shared a dobhi (washerman), a derzi (tailor). There is no welfare in India so it is expected of anyone middle class up to hire servants IAW ones income and place in life. Mama really liked it.
What is the point of all this? If Christians can't accept atheists without issue, or atheists can't abide religious without issue, no matter how much or what any of us worship, then people just aren't worth crap. I get tired of people complaining about Romney was a Morman, Christians want a Nativity scene, and someone else does not want to be confronted with any worship of any kind or style. Ergo, I have a Christmas tree. I don't have a holiday tree. I have a Nativity scene in my living room. I also have a statue of Buddha which my father found in the Jungles of Burma during WWII at an old deserted temple which had been retaken by the jungle. If anyone doesn't like it, they can go straight to hell without passing go and collecting $200. After that experience in India, which taught me the most important thing in life, religious (or areligious) tolerance. When I did research about religions I CHOSE the most common Christian faith in the world because to me their doctrine more closely followed the New Testament and was the basis for all of the New Testaments printed today. Even the King James version which is quite popular among some denominations is nothing more than an English Translation of the original Christian New Testament. The reason I CHOSE this faith is because it was the most inclusive faith I found. It does not exclude the truths of any other religion to include the eastern religions. There, now you have it. What are you going to do about it?