I don't care about religion because they don't threaten me. If I had a family constantly attacking me for not sharing their beliefs and a community constantly shoving their stuff down my throat by making unjust & discriminatory laws against me then I'd hate the religion too.

I don't hate religion I just don't understand why religious people do not think for themselves and question the dogma they are taught.
I can ignore it and laugh at the crazy parts absolutely. I just get upset when religious people tell me how to think and feel, and give me advice, because frankly, it usually sucks.
Also not crazy about religious dogma/arguments, so boring.

Hate their hate of others not like them the bigotry misogyny racism killing in the name of religion letting people starve in custody ripping families apart felonies sense of entitlement and much more

I hate lies

I despise religion because as a kid it was forced upon me. In short, religions often invade my privacy. Not to mention that the Christian religion attempts to be the state defacto religion.

But I often wonder if, in fact, organized religion DOES impact me every day. Less inclusion, more exclusion.

It seems to have dual sides, good and not good at all. It’s inherently divisive and separated people rather than bonding them. Helps people but extracts a hefty price. Thats as good as it gets. The downside is more hideous (pedophilia, intense greed, righteous wrong. )
As Grouch Marx allegedly one said, “I’d never join a club that would have me as a member.” Ahem.

Most things don't affect our day to day life. There are millions of people walking around with cancer and heart disease and other health issues that don't really affect their day to day living. It still affects their lives just as the beliefs of others and their influence on society affects yours. The people with those illnesses can't just ignore it and you shouldn't either.

Be aware of the issues that might someday affect you. Be more observant of the pressures to limit your freedoms. You don't have to hate religion, but to ignore how it affects your life and the lives of others is simply obtuse.

I agree. I don’t hate religion either I just ignore it but there are an awful lot of people on this website who hate it. Hell most of the religious folks are better people than a lot of the left wing nuts on this website.

God created the Coronavirus as he did AIDS? Religion is a damn joke!

People hate religion because religion is not proof!

Not religion per say just the abusive churches etc

I don't hate it I find it ridiculous and do resent people trying to push their silly superstitions on me... I also despise the damage it does to both society and people....

I am an anti- theist. That is i do not hate theist but I do hate religion.

When anyone makes life choices based on mythology instead of reality it is dangerous for everyone.

Well usually its not religion in general, its usually aimed at specific ones usually and it generally has to do with the history or feeling attack of a personal beliefs. Some people have a hate for god, its generally the god that they were introduced to growing up or the idea of an opposing deity. I was sent to a southern baptist school when i was 5. I have spent a lot of years unraveling issues that the idea of a specific belief system helped fuel. It was really funny looking at the idea of belief systems being a major factor of issues and someone pointing out that the initials of belief system is BS

All you have to do is look around and see all the hate that is inspired by religion to detest it.

Quite agree. No impact upon my life. Although many people have had bad experiences.

Possibly similar to an abusive relationship but I don’t know because I’ve not been in one.

I make mine the words of Paul4747. I also believe that the belief or not in God is so personal that it shouldn't be made a religion and make it collective.

To Hate or be against someone or thing is being part of the problem. If I can't convince them through good sense, they already have a mind set that won't be charged.

Religion has killed so many innocent people!

It is entirely possible to be a non-believer and to not hate religion. However, to do so, one must be obsessively naive and shut out every aspect of how religion perverts and corrupts human behavior. That's a tall order. Most non-believers have discarded blind faith because of their revulsion over religion's cruel values.

It is entirely understandable and even laudable to seek to not hate. But if hate sneaks in, don't demean yourself unduly. As always, it is your obligation to ennoble others and enrich their life experience, and hate does not lend itself to that task. Most non-believers are committed to education of themselves and their children or associates. In many respects, education is a partial antidote to religion.

Religion is the worst social disease. It inflicts pain and death as well as insanity. STDs have nothing on religion. Carriers can seem to lack symptoms, until you engage their critical thinking. Blind credulity is nothing less than a virus-borne lobotomy. Basic reasoning can be wiped out, and truth goes out the window. Religious study becomes a liar's club competition as to who can tell the biggest whopper. The conflict between Belief and Reality short circuits logic to the point of psychopathic behavior. That dysfunction manifests itself in a broad assortment of personality disorders that everyone has encountered.

No one has to hate that shit, but for a lot of us, it makes it easier to tolerate.

Are people here posting they don't hate rapists hate child abusers nor hate genocidal monsters murdering Palestinians in shrinking apartheid ghettos ? Violent abusive faiths do NOT deserve a pass nor tax exemptions. Our Atheism is in part, compassion for religious victims and condemnation of the alleged gawds which believers cite as justification for their crimes.

This is a false leading question that too many Atheists and believers conform to. Billions of believers hate each other over ASSUMED conflicting beliefs. Some religious books ORDER BELIEVERS to rape and kill people on account of religion sex and the fiction of race. Beware ignoring violent believers who will kill or rape you for being female or Atheist. Atheism = freedom FROM religion....the emotion of hate is very natural and normal towards rapists racists thieves frauds and .murderers ALL CRIMINALS FORGIVEN by religions and theocracies

Do you have birth certificate, social security number and photo identification? Do you pay the forced by law taxation for worship of the Masonic lodge secret religion racist devil worship government?

Yes, the biblical text requires identification for taxation and government control and requires worship of the First laws for world domination attempt that fell with Catholicism into denominations. "In God we trust"

Yes, I know, most people that do not have intellegence capabilities to understand metaphor and riddles do not understand the dictates of the biblical text written in metaphor and riddles for some things. This is done so smart people can enslave stupid people to capitalism slave labor. Slaves more so out of ignorance and slaves forced only because of the created necessity to do such as pay property tax just to have a place to live.

United States of America is a violation of the constitution that establishes the Masonic lodge secret religion racist devil worship government.