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I understand your point about ethnicity and culture. And while culture is a learned aspect to each human, my point was to go a little deeper than even that. We all know what that kind of deepest-felt Love is like, whether it's through our spiritual/religious beliefs, our physical loved ones, or even our culture to some extent.
That's the part I want to define. That connection to a part of us so complete that mocking it is akin to mocking us as a person. It's probably why I bristle whenever people make broad-brushed attacks at Texas and the South. I don't really consider myself a Southerner, but it does make me wonder about the learned emotions of the person doing the attacking. My love for my Home State is just as deep (if not moreso) as their seeming "hate" for the same place. Yet, it's okay to attack my Home and dismiss my reactions because "it's just a place." Same kind of reaction as those that mock and attack a belief. "It's just an abstract thought. It's not truly part of you." Or so they would argue.
And yes, I agree with you that we likely can't get this concept through the thickheadness of some of DU's anti-theists. As has been stated elsewhere in this thread, they simply don't care. Getting an emotional rise out of us is their form of intellectual sport, and their psychological make-up is developed to react with glee. I've always thought this was endemic to the mind and actions of a bully, but we all know how far you'll get trying to point that kind of thing out...
Well, it does look like folks here like this discussion, so maybe we'll be able to define this connection to our spirituality and religious feelings in ways that just might cause the "opposition" to pause, reflect, and ponder. Selah. 
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