I know I once – aaaages ago – unsubscribed from someone whose posts started having strong religious slants. I just don’t really want to read anyone’s views on “growing in christ” or whatever. So I’d guess the reverse also held true – if your posts sit uncomfortably with someone’s beliefs, they probably don’t want to find them in their subscription feed.

I think, for many Christians (and other monotheistic faiths) any declaiming of “the Lord” can be hurtful and taken to be offensive. If, from the moment you are born onwards you are told as fact that there is a God, that He is watching you, taking care of you, loving you and constantly involved in your life then you’re going to have an emotional response when someone tells you that “It’s not true”. Imagine your childhood and earliest memories but instead of just having one Dad you also have an invisible Daddy too. Everyone in your family loves and respects this invisible dad, they tell you that everything you have, love and cherish has been provided for by “Our Father who art in Heaven”. Many Christians feel a love for God as strong as the love for their parents, it’s a deep emotional and personal bond and therefore if someone puts a big sign on a bus saying “There probably is no God” then it’s distressing because it would be like saying to you “Absnasm, you made your Dad up, he’s a figment of your imagination and all that love you have and feel has been reciprocated by him is fake too.”
As someone who was brought up a Christian but then realised she didn’t believe at about 15 I can see both sides of the coin. My rational mind does not believe in God, I think it is a made up concept. However, interestingly, I still feel a certain amount of emotional attachment to the concept of God. I still sometimes envy those people who still have faith and have the comfort of having that “loving” relationship. When my brain clicked and I realised there was no God it was a bit like someone dying. I think I grieved for the loss of “the invisible dad” because his existance was once so real to me.
Like a lot of things in life, we can rationalise our thoughts but not the emotional response we have regarding those thoughts. If, from a baby you are told there is a God and your parents and teachers and the government and all authority figures are telling you the same and you are sheltered and steered away from anyone who says different then you will believe that there is a God. Belief, for me, is one of the most facinating philosophical concepts. It’s not the faith itself that creates wars, political problems, hostility and genocide it’s the emotional response to having that faith that causes the damage.