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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You can be an atheist without hating religion. People believe all sorts of weird stuff. Personally, I know a lot more people who believe secular nonsense than religious nonsense.
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a·the·ist
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noun
noun:
atheist; plural noun:
atheists
a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.
Now that does not suggest hating religion at all, and you are right we do not have to hate religion(s), however the religious constantly force us into taking sides and that "could" include hatred by "some" atheists. (
eg. Last week, the Pew Research Center released the results of a new survey concerning who Americans would want – or rather, wouldn’t want – for an in-law. While about 10 percent of Americans said they’d be unhappy if a family member married someone of a different political persuasion, and about 30 percent of Americans said they’d be unhappy if a family member married a gun owner, nearly 50 percent of Americans said that they’d be unhappy if a family member married an atheist.)
Based on this and MANY other studies of similar ilk I would suggest that it is the religious who hate, distrust,
fear, or have irrational thoughts of nonreligious people, <see atheism>.