So let’s just start with “others hostility or contempt and derision.” That’s just a persecution complex that wanna-believers are well known to create.
Person A says “I don’t believe there is a God”
Person B says “person A is persecuting me and my faith!”
So it’s not so much that it affects your “faith walk,” it’s that your “faith walk” affects your judgment. You see persecution where there is none and persecutors where there are none.
For what? That they don’t believe what you believe? Again spare us the “hostility and derision” schtick because that’s all an act. It’s pure make believe.
That’s just you projecting. You’ve been told repeatedly where they (we) stand on all this:
You want to believe in all that stuff? That’s one thing.
You want to force the state to teach my child that it’s all literally true? That’s a whole other ballgame.
And yeah, we don’t play that ballgame nicely, and we’re right not to.
The one thing religious adherents won’t say about that out loud in public is that “you have an obligation to just lay down and passively allow us to indoctrinate your kids,” but that’s what they want to do. That’s why this state, for example, is trying to ram the Bible down children’s throats. You will never see a secular humanist/atheist equivalent of that, at least not if you’re honest.
What you will see, to repeat, is the common refrain “separation of church and state,” and sans a handful of extremist barking lunatics, that’s as far as it goes. It’s pure theatrics to assert otherwise.
There are some religious adherents that are at least honest when they both acknowledge the existence of a separation of church and state and admit to being offended by it. But here is my response to it: thank you for your refreshing honesty; I’m offended that you’re offended.