How come atheist hate Chistians more than muslims?

Answer 1

Because they hate the truth.

Answer 2

A: I'm not sure who said that Muslims don't try to force their opinions down anyone's throat but...let's just say that it's obvious that you haven't been reading the newspaper at all.

B: I'm not sure if it's even TRUE that atheists hate Christians more than they do Muslims. If they did, I would certainly understand why, and I'm not even an atheist. A lot of Christians(not all of you) tend to adopt this "holier-than-thou" attitude that makes everyone sick. The same people lecturing against homosexuality are the same people having pre-marital sex, lying, cheating, etc. I personally hate it when some tainted, immoral person tries to tell ME about being a Christian, as if they know ANYTHING about it.

Answer 3

You'll be comforted to know that I just chewed out a Muslim over the the subject of pork. You're all equally detestable.

Just kidding! I think that you sense it because it is you yourself. The Muslims probably feel the same. No one notices the insult that other people take as well as they notice their own. If you are talking about online or this site in particular, remember that the United States is on the internet more than most counties and also predominantly Christian, therefore it is much more likely to be the former religion of those who now disbelieve, whose hate you think you are feeling.

Answer 4

Assuming you're writing this from the United States, the answer is somewhat apparent. Speaking as an Atheist, but not for all Atheists, it's because Christians and Christianity impacts our lives more here than Islam does. On a daily basis, Christianity is a great force in our lives. Our leaders are, or profess to be, Christian. Christian relics lurk in our money and pledge, and Bible verses adorn many buildings.

I don't hate Christians. I don't hate Muslims. But, if you think Atheists hate Christians it's probably because we're exhausted by them. Exhausted by their inability to prove their God, in a world where the established rules of logic demand that you start from nothing and prove your way to a conclusion.

Something so startling as God demands proof, yet many people live a life, and affect my life drastically, with a strange lack of it in their most significant belief.

Islam has much the same problem, but truth be told, I don't live in an Islamic world. I live in a Christian world. If I did, they'd probably think I hate them as well.

Answer 5

I disagree with the hate statement. I do think that there is less knowledge and experience among atheists with Islam than there is with Christianity. I feel therefore that with holding judgement on something you do not know enough about is a good thing.

Personally I have experienced more sheepish obedience and illogical hypocrisy among Christians than among Muslims. I do think a major difference between the religions and cultures is their perspective on use of force. Personally I prefer a people who say they are in favor of it and then do not use it, rather than a people who condemn it and then use it. Just do the math of how many foreign interventions the USA does compared to muslim countries. I also have more respect for people willing to fight their own battles rather than using others to carry out their will. My preferences are non-religious but rather cultural or personal in nature, but I can see how people who judge groups as a whole would have more issues with christians than with muslims. A personal struggle transforms you since you learn to value yourself, but value something else even more and as such I respect Christian, Muslim and Atheist fanatics. I however disagree with all fundamentalists since their static view is not constructive and merely leads to becoming trapped in endless opposition.

Answer 6

You know, I don't know. It seems like out here in Y!A land, Atheists post questions like "Xtians, why do you believe in a non-existent God?", then backpedal by saying, "OH, I don't HATE Christians, I just don't agree with them".

Atheists can be quick to say that religion is the source of society's ills, then claim they have a right to their views, even if it means attacking the views of others. Not all of them are like that, but there certainly seem to be quite a few.

It's as hypocritical as Christians who spend the week cheating on their spouses and breaking commandments and using scripture to run their own agenda, then show up all pious at church on Sunday, wearing too much cologne.

We should just let these two types duke it out. Hopefully they'll knock some sense into each other.

Answer 7

I think it's unfair to say that Atheists hate Christians. They simply feel more personally attacked by Christians than by Muslims. I'm Agnostic, but I tend to empathize with Atheists in their feeling that they are singled out for their beliefs (or lack thereof, as some people say) by Christians. Just last night I went to dinner with a friend's family for her niece's kindergarten graduation and an older coupld passed the table to offer congratulations. At some point, completely unprevoked or expected, they leaned over and told Maddie, a 5 year-old, to remember that Jesus loved her and so do they. Then the wife went on to tell her that they were all sisters and brother in the Lord (a concept which a 5 year-old cannot comprehend) and that they would all meet again in Heaven. She even asked Maddie to look her up when she got there.

My problems with that are that 1.She's 5 and someone telling her things like "I'll see you in Heaven", scare her. And 2.It's rude of that couple to assume that Maddie's parents were raising her Christian or wanted her to be taught things like that. Since she's not my daughter, I stayed out of it, but if it had been my child, I would have very politely asked them not to preach to my children without knowing what lessons I want to teach them.

The problem is that we, as "non-believers", are constantly having other people's views forced on us. I have no problem sitting down and having an open discussion about religion, I enjoy it actually, but it's irresponsible to assume that I'm of the same beliefs you are and to further insist on showering me with those beliefs unless asked to. After so many years of this kind of behavior it's hard not to form some initial conclusions about people.

Answer 8

Isn't that a STRANGE phenomena? They have a little talking point that they got from the UK that Christians are like the Taliban.

I am an Atheist. Please, please, believe me when I tell you that this is a new breed of Atheists and very small, *very* vocal minority that uses the Internet to spew their hatred. You probably don't even know the Atheists around you in your life because they don't feel the need to insult anyone or talk about their beliefs.

The new breed are Radical Atheists.

Answer 9

I am an Atheist. I do not hate any religion or person more than any other. I will say that being an American, it is very annoying to have to deal with the attempt of the Christian political forces to try to mix politics and religion. There is not a Muslim presence attempting to do this in the USA. Perhaps that is what you mean. THE USA IS NOT A RELIGIOUS STATE THEREFORE WE SHOULD LEAVE RELIGION OUT OF IT AS WE ARE NOT ALL ONE RELIGION.

Answer 10

Its hard to love someone who is always pointing out your sins, and telling you you are going to hell. That what you believe is WRONG and that you will spend eternity in Hell, and their way is the only way, that worshiping their God, in their way is the only RIGHT way.
And that's just what they say to Christians of other denominations.
An atheist can only see a delusional pantheon of mythology with heavens and hells and angels and virgin births, and saints and sinners. Great stories, but essentially replays of earlier Greco-Roman mythology.
For the record, I suppose its really the Evangelical Christians that annoy, their zeal to convert is wearing on the ability to be polite. Hate? No. Annoyed at getting pushed to the end of their rope....oh yes.
I don't think we normally meet as many Muslims as we do ECs and if they were to proselytize as loudly, then we would be just as annoyed at them.

Answer 11

I don't hate Christians. However, my animosity towards them arises from the fact that I live in the United States. In the US, Christianity is the dominant religion. I have to deal with more Christians than Muslims. Hence, I have lost all patience for people telling me "Jesus is the only way to heaven." I don't hear much Islamic rhetoric. I imagine if I lived in a predominantly Muslim nation, my antagonism would be directed towards Muslims in lieu of Christians.