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Let's assume you and I are Americans. On what basis can you defend "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights" unless at the absolute least it is a rational God who gave rational humans a rational world. A Muslim who will kill you because in conscience you can't be a Muslim is ipso facto irrational , anti-American, and paints God as horrible.

As Pope Benedict put it:

" spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. "God", he says, "is not pleased by blood - and not acting reasonably (σὺν λόγω) is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death...""

Now don't hide, I assume you accept being a citizen.