OK...here's the thing on "respecting" religious and other supernatural beliefs....

[Lordquinton]

79. If you missed the context, then you didn't read it all the way through

the OP was just sharing an experience, venting about how they kept their mouth shut, because that's what we do as atheists, and just got overwhelmed one day and said their point of view. I don't know where you live where everyone lays out their entire spectrum of belief when you first meet, but in the real world you only really talk about it when it comes up, and only if necessary. The OP obviously didn't deem it necessary, and thought, as any rational person would, that when they tried to share their own point of view the other person would consider it with a reciprocal attitude. But they didn't. And it's doubly off putting as they had been respectful of their nail person's view for so long. Plus you can add on customer service, they should't have been like that at all.

In the case of the poster who let the soup kitchen worker know their beliefs, and that they weren't doing it because of any god, well clearly you didn't read the article. You seem to be the type that thinks that atheists should bend over for theists whenever a confrontation is handled, and don't look at it through a different point of view. That atheists aren't entitled to their beliefs, nor should they be respected.