My father is a Christian MD. His faith helps him cope with end of life scenarios and give spiritual hope to patients who would like it. It is not a crux to be Christian, or for that matter, spiritual or harbor beliefs about the metaphysical.
There are many people from many different walks of life. Part of being a physician is encountering these people on a daily basis and striking up a healthy doctor-patient relationship. However, given some of the things said in this thread, I can't imagine some of you being able to be respectful towards your patient if at every chance you denounce him/her to be a quack. It seems that some of you here harbor a hostile attitude towards different ways of life rather than an attitude of respectful difference.
As a Christian myself, I can understand the things said against Liberty as an institution. My brother currently goes there and when he was accepted, my family was less than pleased that he attended. When I went to visit him I heard some theological beliefs floating around that even made me cringe. Let it be known that Liberty is not representative of the Christian faith as a whole and remember that Liberty belongs strictly to one denomination of Christianity. There are many Christians today, including myself, that believe that Jerry Falwell and his family have done some very crazy and disagreeable things.
Be careful, when continuing this conversation, to not mistake of applying generalities and broad statements to all peoples of faith or to all who are atheist.
Attempting to discredit someone based solely on their beliefs (whether theist or atheist) rather than their ability to learn and practice medicine sounds like discrimination at best. There are plenty of Christians (and other religions) that are in all sorts of medical schools whether allopathic or osteopathic. In addition, there are plenty of practicing physicians who actively practice their faith yet are still competent and seek to advance the cause of medicine.
Some Christians believe in evolution, some don't. Some Muslims believe in evolution, some don't. Some Mormons believe in evolution, some don't. Some agnostics believe in evolution, some don't. Some atheists believe in evolution, some don't. Be wary of blanket statements.
If you want to scrutinize the quality of physicians the institution is producing; fine. However, scrutinizing physicians based on their faith is different.