I have never understood atheists. They hate what they do not believe exist. Seems like a lot of wasted effort.
That’s because “if there was a God”...he’d be telling them not to be liars, thieves, murderers and perverts.
>> I have never understood atheists.
Atheism, like Christianity, boils down to faith.
An atheist can no more “prove” that God does *not* exist, than a Christian can “prove” (in the humanistic, legal, or mathematical sense) that He does exist.
All of us must decide where to place our faith.
Frankly, I admire atheists for the strength of their faith. They believe there is no God in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary! That takes quite a bit of faith. If only it could be turned into faith in God...
As for me, I’m not gonna believe some fiction that an atheist says I should believe — I’m going to believe in my own lyin’ eyes! I see the presence of the Almighty God everywhere. So, it’s much EASIER to believe in God and His son Jesus than NOT to believe.
It is not always a wasted effort. Look at Russian Revolution of 1917. Bolsheviks actively and aggressively fought religion because they understood all too well that religion (and the Church) can defeat them. To that end they killed many priests and made exercise of religious choices very hard, impossible or in some cases - illegal. There were no priests in the army, for example (but you could talk to a commissar at any time :-)
Eventually they succeeded and - here is the real goal - the leaders of Communists became gods themselves. They received prayers ("letters to Comrade Stalin") and gifts (sacrifices); they enjoyed God-like powers of life and death; and they were beyond the reach of a common man. Members of Politburo stepped into shoes of angels. Belief in Stalin by 1940 reached, if not exceeded, belief in God in, say, 1900.
So the work that Communists did at that time was far from being wasted. But this was a massive, organized undertaking. I can't say why (or if) modern atheists hate or not hate a deity. But if I were to guess, Christianity (as an example) promotes many behaviors that are alien, if not contrary, to wishes and actions of a large number of people (a.k.a. criminals) - things like "do not kill, do not steal" ... and people who actively reject these notions are also likely to hate and denigrate the source of them.