Why do they hate each other so much?

I believe it stems from the same plant of hate that racism does, as does differing religions, and sexual orientation.
At that same time if somebody told you everything you believed in was a lie and you're wrong and foolish for believing it somebody in your same group will take offense.

They hate each other because atheists assume all christians are close-minded extremists, and christians assume all atheists are immoral scum.

Why they hate each other:

from the atheist perspective, the aparent prefernce for ignorance, the use of religion as an excuse, and the indoctrinating of the young.

from the christian side, that their deeply held beliefs are being questioned, threatened, and maybe even disproved.

Actually it's rather normal for humans to. Fear comes from the unknown, that what the unknown contains may compromise ones life or possessions. If something threatened to take from you, your first reaction would be to dislike and resist, the more it threatens to take the more you dislike till it grows into hatred towards which leads to attacking.



Both good and evil are subjective terms, there is no such thing as a literal definition for either. If, for example, morality and immorality defined right and wrong, those differ greatly from culture to culture. Mormon's multiple wife rule versus Christian single wife rule. Or a more common one, we (Americans) are taught killing is never right, but shying from war, shying away from fighting for your country to kill others, who may be in the exact same situation as you, by there country, is immoral. The bible both denounce and encourages killing.



In most cases,(I can only really based this off Christianity, and my aunt who believes in a quack Buddhist religion promising her everything she'll ever want if she prays the way they tell her too, Bakemonogatari comes to mind) religion is just a means to self gratification. People will resort to it when they feel lost or meaningless seeking it out to find that meaning. Religion gives purpose and significance, an idea that the listener is special and someone is constantly concerned, rooting for them, and making there life better. That there is something out there that causes their, and everyone else, problems. That there mistakes are influenced. Christianity promises many good things to those who do there bidding, "to help others", "to teach and guide others", secures you a spot in heaven. Religiously, to do good things is often done with the promise/expectation something good will come back to you. As oppose to teaching that "doing good things is good". Its not a matter of love (for most). The bible teaches violence, hate, slavery, genocide.

OT: Christians feel its there need to guide others to safety, being the only ones who can. So they force there religious beliefs onto others. Example: America was never meant to be a "Christian country".

This results in Atheist taking offense to being force fed something they do not believe, nor wish to abide by. So they push back against religion. Christianity, feeling threaten, pushes harder. Resulting in a harder push back. Its a pointless stupid cycle. In most cases a lot of atheist lose track of there... minds?. Forgetting that they are fighting to topple the unbalanced religious power, to end up in the same mindset of "enforcing there beliefs onto others". If you looked at it from a different perspective, its just a bunch of people who want to be the most "right" person.

Well, once you have a belief, if you see someone attack your belief, of course you'd defend it and maybe even counter it, and until this moment we can't prove which one is the right belief and which one is wrong, thus, as what Lolli said, they're both wrong but at the same time they are both right.

Chrstians hate Atheists because Christianity teaches that their religion is the one true religion and the rest are bullshit nonsense. A tolerant Christian in essence of their religious beliefs is a lazy Christian who should be spreading the word. Why would you be tolerant when people's souls are on the line? Essentially to them spreading Christianity is akin to spreading a cure for a major disease.

Atheists on the other hand hate Christians for that exact same reason. Religions in general have caused a lot However a lot of Atheists as a result become elitist because they believe they are "above" such people who put faith into an unprovable religion. So they just become pretentious assholes.

Well , they have different point of views
they are not going to start hugging and kiss each other , do they ??
Also , I don't get the insults , I mean when they start discussing the argument , 99% of the times on of both sides start insulting the other and making fun of him/them , calling him/them stupid , monkey , subhuman and many other things
I prefer to stop it (the argument) in the point when somebody start these kind of things
Because most of the times they aren't discussing , they are trolling

I fell like i need to generalize this topic before i simplify it. since the dawn of religion non believers have been shunned because they contradict whichever doctrine is in their locale. As far as Atheists and Christians the battle has been going on for a long ass time. The issue that Christians have essentially with atheists is that they disobey the gosple and have no intention of living in the light of Christ. From a christian perspective this is foolish and shortsighted. on the hand of the atheist they have been persecuted since the dawn of Christianity and although they may not feel any direct attachment to their forbeareres they still carry the same stigma to the christian community. As an atheist my greatest qualm is that i should not waste my time with religion when i only have limited time on earth ( I simply subscribe to the philosophy's of Voltaire ). From this justification Religion is a waste of my limited time, and i therefore neither have the time or the money to support an institution i believe is founded on lies. I live in Canada so i get along pretty well with the christian community in my district but as i have seen from youtube videos the atheist community feels exceptionally marginalized in the United States, and that is a condition that has bread hate since the dawn of society.

It depends on your viewpoint on spiritual/religious beliefs. Some people will be indifferent, some people will take an interest in someone having a viewpoint that is different than theirs. And there are people who just can't and refuse to understand any beliefs other than their own. This is why it appears that they hate each other so much, the only ones that you seem to hear from are the ones who are ignorant to anything that appears to be different from their own viewpoint.

Simply, there are those that hate and those that don't. Those that hate will hate those that are different in the way they were taught or learned. Those that don't hate won't hate unless pushed too far, unlocking basic human instincts.

If you are asking why? Because its part of being human. We usually don't like to change and can get aggressive if people try to make us change. Change can be in any form, from pickles on a sandwich to your acceptance of a new gaming console, or a team's jersey.

Simply the religious or non religious has accepted something to be true, making the other ideas wrong. Sometimes the teaching has one spread the idea, this spreading causes change and people just don't like change.

Personally I am an Agnostic Theist. I believe in God, but don't think God can be defined by man because man is flawed. IE Organized Religions are wrong in many ways to me.