I think Hully is getting a bit of a hard time to be honest.
I'm an atheist, which does unfortunately mean that I find the belief in god(s) in a modern society, given what we know now irrational. It is hard being friends with someone who is devout coming from that position unless we agree to disagree.
I do tend to think my friends who believe are either deluding themselves, or haven't thought it through. I don't tend to believe that they don't have the critical thinking facility to do so (although I'm sure there are people for whom that's the case) because I don't have friends who are stupid.
That probably all sounds quite harsh, but here's the flip side (for me at least, although it seems to be common to atheist friends):
I came to my atheism by examining my religious upbringing through various prisms (my education, examining inconsistencies, reading atheist and religious thinkers...and so on). I then expanded that to learn about other religions and concluded that it was not rational for me to believe in any of them. That is to say, the rational position is not to believe.
To ask me to hold equal a believe in the supernatural is to ask me to suggest my own conclusion is equally rational. Now since I've discounted belief as irrational, there are two ways I can do that: evidence I've discounted (bring it on, I'd love to live forever in some idyll), or by suggesting my own reasoning is equivalent to that which arrived at an irrational position - that is, to be knowingly irrational. I think it would be difficult for an atheist who came to that view through thinking (rather than by default) to hold that view.
That doesn't mean I can't respect the positive aspects about (some) faith: community, charity, morality (some of the morality anyway).
We are all flawed, not least me. I disagree with friends on many things, but unless they are extremists of any flavour, I can (usually) live with the disagreement, much as they live with my own failings, whether perceived or real.