I didn't create a false dichotomy. You just said this in the same post: [quote][quote]I don't know you, but I would assume you would want Christians to stop claiming this[/quote]. Yes.[/quote] And... [quote]I want Christians to continue to have the ability to challenge beliefs.[/quote] So you "want Christians to stop" challenging beliefs, but you "want Christians to continue to have the ability to challenge beliefs". If you want Christians to stop challenging beliefs, what good is it to you, then, that Christians have the ability to challenge beliefs? What good is an ability if it not exercised? You're in such disagreement with Christians that you're failing to notice that they are meeting your own standard of "belief informs action"; spreading their beliefs IS the way in which they are meeting it. That is why I said you're emotionally comprised: Because by your own judgements, you have no basis to prefer that they stop spreading what they believe. It's hypocritical. [quote]Of course let ppl believe what they want. But depending on what that is, I would prefer if people didn't believe it.[/quote] Therefore, the phrase, "let people believe what they want" is not an invitation to ignore belief, but rather to observe, and to recognize belief. If you're constantly concerned with one-upping religious people and breaking down their faith, you will see the phrase as ignorance because you see their faith as ignorant. But if you're more concerned with loving others, you will begin to understand the phrase because you will begin to understand why they believe what they believe. I do not live my life by this phrase because it's more than apparent that truth is objective. And though the phrase is not ignorant, it would be ignorant not to prefer that Atheism OVERCOMES Christianity or that Christianity OVERCOMES Atheism. I can prefer one or the other in this case because I am affording the other the same chance I am giving myself. But to prefer that Christians stop spreading their beliefs altogether when I myself prefer to keep spreading mine?- I might as well imprison one rapist and let another go free.