Your kind is so prone to the violent metaphors. Must be a side effect of all that faithing.
You don't get it do you? Let me spell it out: One does not have to be religious to support freedom of faith, freedom of conscious. That is what the enlightenment was all about. That is what America is all about. Because I defend faith says nothing about my faith. I want, as Larry King says, a level playing field. I want faith, no matter what faith, out there contesting in the realm of ideas. I want everyone to participate. People are capable of shaking out what is evil from what is good, what is phony from what is real, what is destructive to life from what promotes life.
If you must know, I am a Unitarian. Very few on FR consider me a Christian. I do try to educate them but the religion of Jefferson, Channing, Adams and others, despite the allure of their political philosophies, does not garner me many converts.