To answer the initial question: atheists don't hate religion. They just want to be left alone and religious nuts to keep to themselves. Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. Mind to your own business.
This isn't entirely true. There are many atheists who hate religion. A few of them have said so right in this thread.
Many religious people want to save atheists from destruction. That's why they are out there talking to atheists. Regarding Christians, it is a command of God that they do this.
If an atheist didn't want to be saved, he would go out and commit suicide rather than be preached at. As it is, atheists are reaching out for help just by remaining alive.
As it is, one of the starting points is to show the atheist that atheism is a religion, or at least close enough to religion that it might as well be religion. Another is to show atheists the standard scientific proof that God exists. Still another is to show atheists how their own religion shows that they are setting themselves up to be gods, so that atheism is entirely self-contradictory.
Do you really want to live in a dream world? Wouldn't you rather get down to the facts of life sometime? Get off your atheism kick. You are self destructing by believing the atheism dream to be fact.
