Ok, this has been one of the things that piss me off more than anything lately. People always generalize against christians. I am by no means religious. But generalizations makes stereotypes, and stereotypes make hate so its just it so hypocritical. I was speaking to one of the people in charge of intercultralism at my university and he said that the biggest form of discrimination at school is anti-faith. Apparently 40% of students will report belonging to some form of religion, but only 20% will admit it in public.
I hate when anyone preaches in a condescending way, anyone who goes on about how religion is like santa clause is no better than the person who says that people who don't accept christ are going to hell. Don't judge other peoples choices, if it makes some person who is on death's bed feel good about themselves, then who the fuck cares?
Your incident was one douche bag who is christian, if it were a black person you wouldn't say 'black douche bags' And to be honest his comment wasn't that rude, it was his way to come to terms with losing a friend. People say much more bizzare stuff when stressed. I agree it wasn't totally appropriate but its not like he wrote " you're going to hell ya damn atheist."