im just saying that faith is a personal thing, and that if i found that someone was hanging up religious icons or whatever in a shared break area, i think it would put my back up too.
Yeah. But atheism is a personal choice, too, and if you live in a country of say, Christian culture, you should expect to see and accept such symbols, without seeking to censor them for your own pleasure.
When I am in Islamic culture countries, I expect to accept their environmental preferences, and when I was in Eastern Europe during the cold war, I expected and accepted their atheistic symbols without rancour. I was presented with Warsaw tributes by their representatives, but if i wanted to have a discussion like this, I would have to walk down the middle of the road with a friend, in order to talk safely.
Atheism is practically a religion of its own, and very over-bearing it seems to be, too.
Each to his own.
I am speaking here only as a man, putting other agendas to one side.