What I saw in your post was mutual respect, mutual respect for each others faith. We all go through life trying to understand, and there are a few people who do, a few people who think. Humans have yet to become enlightened being and they are not perfect, but human beings can strive to give some degree of understanding of others. It is those who criticize who are far from enlightened, because they fail to see, the miss the details because their vision is of black and white, not the limitless spectrum of color. I'm far from perfect, but I try to respect my friends, be they Christian, Fundimentalist Christian, Coptic, Muslim, Buddhists, Jewish, Bahai, Agnostics, or Atheists (and that just about covers my workplace). Tis the season for understanding, and as you said, he knows.