They hate God because He loves them. In their arrogant sin, they see His love as pity and it outrages them in their impotence.
Shake the dirt from your sandals and move on. Give a prayer daily for a nationwide Damascus Road moment.
It is getting much worse. It will get much worse still. The great falling away. Happening so fast, my ears pop.
No.
The useful idiots among them hate God because they've been told it's cool and fashionable to hate God. It's really no more difficult than that.
The true believers among them, however, hate God because they believe that the only higher power in the peasant's lives should be the state.
They hate God because they think they are God.