I know, but somehow we all have to get along in a secular world, a sort of global "melting pot".
Prior to September 11th, my neighbors could have worshipped a tree, and I would have respected their tree. Heck I would have watered their tree when they went on vacation. I still respect the tree but September 11th changed a lot of things. It was divisive and it changed some of our perceptions in some very Un-American ways. Maybe that's what it was intended to do....