Heh, and don't I know it!
I have a dear friend... when I first knew her, she was an agnostic. She became a Christian two years ago, and the first thing she told me, after I got over being ecstatic, was that I was the first Christian she'd ever met who wasn't judgemental, or a weirdo, or just plain stupid. Isn't that sad? Someone could go 18 years without meeting a real Christian?
Or without knowing it. I suppose there could have been Christians she met who never said anything about being Christian.
I think we just need to look at the example of Christ and who he spent his time with. It was not the religous leaders.