Ever noticed an Atheist displaying an almost fanatical hatred of religion?

Question

For the majority they are educated and have there own idea's thats great, but I have noticed some that actually hate religion full stop. Not just think its silly, but hate it.

Please not I did not specify any particular religion.

Please "Note" oops

Answer 1

It's a mania with some...

Answer 2

Maybe they have suffered from religion. Like people who fled the taliban in Afghanistan, or the mullahs in Iran or the muslim militias in Darfur.
Some people have been molested sexually by priests.
I do not say their hatred is correct, but it is understandable.

I am glad you said they hate religion. They do not hate people. That is good. Religion is just an (unproven) idea. People are more important.

And again: if you would give a few examples, that might help.
Yours is a serious accusation. Or are you just gossiping?

Answer 3

Atheists laugh at Christians when they say you have to have faith over matters where there does not appear to be an answer. Yet atheists will agree that there is a lot they do not know about the origins of the universe and life on earth and they have faith in science to eventually make the necessary discoveries.

They also become as dogmatic as those they criticise when they forcibly state: "Evolution is fact", while they know that facts can be proven and evolution has not been proven.

Atheists may give reasons for why they hate religion, one of which is 'religion starts wars'. So no atheists have went to war, then? Part of science's contribution to the world is land-mines designed to look like children's toys, bombs designed to maim and disfigure rather than kill, atomic bombs which wipe out hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in seconds, etc. Atheists appear to have even developed hypocricies of their own.

They refuse to accept that the Bible was inspired of God, that it was merely written by men. But, on the other hand, they cling to books such as The God Delusion and The Origin of the Species which were written by men. Unlike Darwin, however, no Bible writer renounced what they had written on their death-bed.

There are even churches of Atheism!

On his sermon on the Mount, Jesus said at Matthew 5:3 "Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need." Notice that he did not say, 'happy are those who HAVE a spiritual need'. Accoriding to the verse, we have all been created with a spiritual need. Atheists may supress that need but it comes out, almost to the point of fanaticism, in the above ways.

Answer 4

Have noticed it... I used to be one.
And I mean a really ugly hatred.
I am so glad that is over with.
My brother who is an atheist also has a pretty powerful hatred of religion and in particular Christianity... so when I became Christian man did he ever blow a gasket.

Frankly my response to him would have been the same some years before.
But God Bless him, he sets it aside when dealing with me, once in a while he'll go on a rant.. but I just smile. I am glad he is not apathetic. And mostly I am glad he has the integrity to be honest about his dislike. That way we are not playing games.
And I am glad that 95% of the time he respects me enough to tone it down.

By the way , I don't prosletyze him, I don't hound him. I just give him my love as his sister.

Answer 5

I'm not even atheist, but I hate religion and don't care who knows it.

Most people SHOULD hate religion. It hates them and means to do them harm. If that's not something which deserves to be hated, I don't know what is.

Religion would have you believe that suffering is good. See Mother Teresa for examples. She loved suffering. It gave her rapturous pleasure to see people suffer and she openly endorsed the regimes and political attitudes which produced it on the most massive scale. For that, the church is going to make her a Saint!

Religion stands, full square, against honesty, respect and freedom. It absolutely denies that, of course, but its has a miserable legacy. It's hard to imagine how civilisation could be worse off without the moral and intellectual blight that is religion.

Roll on Enlightenment.

Answer 6

For as smart as they are you would just think to pass it off as silly instead of the hatred they have for it.

Because I do think that for the most part atheists are very intelligent people, as are Christians but you see hate from both sides, what is the motivator for such hate I wonder?

Each camp wants their opinion, heard and try and persuade the other side that they are right, but hate is the wrong way to do. it should all be done in love and in intelligent discussion without the hate thrown around.

Answer 7

I move more toward the hate level everyday because the sheer mass of people who blindly embrace ignorance is just astounding. I see the current state of the religion as nothing more than a organization that tries to keep people stupid only so it can maintain what power it has left in a world. Religion teaches people to ignore evidence because if it goes against you beliefs then obviously it must be false.

I would not be surprised to find a religion that says rain falls upward and despite the infinite about of data that shows that it simply is not true. A religious follower would have no problem ignoring that evidence.

Answer 8

Yes, I have noticed, and this is coming from an Atheist. I also don't like the way some Atheists idolise individuals and follow certain books that tell them how to live their lives. It's almost like Atheism is becoming a religion itself.

Answer 9

There is a great degree of intolerance.
This is a quote I found:

"...Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source."

Albert Einstein, 1941

Answer 10

You are right .For people who does not believe they sure are over board with religion.They have hatered toward people and God like they have done something personal to them.The top of the page says"religion & spirituality" if you don't like God and his followers you shouldn't come to a place where you know they are.Your just asking for God's people to tell them all about his wonderful grace and how his Son gave his life so that we could have life.

Answer 11

Though I don't hate, I think any reasonable, educated person could observe the evils performed in the name of religion, currently and throughout history, and develop a justified hatred.