Atheist: I recently said “F**k you” to the subset of Christians who tell me that my life has no meaning if I am an atheist. Some were offended by the vulgar word but they do not see how offensive their entire message is.
My response:
That is a good word “subset”. You are correct in telling them that if they said something like that to you.
Fundamentalist literalist Christianity is doing itself no favours by playing the “club” card, that is for sure.
Frankly, they are afraid of the slippery slope of admitting to ANYTHING except what is in their doctrinal handbook (their translation of what the bible means), and their churches teach them to do so.
Really, it is far more sad than it is something to be angry about.
I would like to suggest what they are unwilling to say due to their fearful literalist dogmatic beliefs:
1.) IF the whole physical universe rises from one source, and
2.) IF all of the universe is connected to that one source,
3.) THEN all “human individuals” are listening to the same Source, and interpreting what they see from their individual unique POV.
4.) this also suggests that there is not a separate material essence, but one source essence that is the source as well everything that rises from it
Especially in fundamentalism, they cannot admit the fact that “there is an awesome reality, and we use our religions to place a “face” on that reality, but all those faces fall short of the actual reality.”
(the human mind is limited in its understanding, but not in its experiencing of this)
Personally, I do not believe that there is any “throwaways” in the Universe, and every person plays their part.
Once a person gets rid of the boogeymen in their life, they can stop being afraid of angry gods and devils and things can get crystal clear.
Reality is Dharma 
I agree with this: “there is an awesome reality, and we use our religions to place a “face” on that reality, but all those faces fall short of the actual reality.” 🙂
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