I think it was Nietzsche who said that we always end up hating those whom we betrayed. Everything beautiful in Europe was created because of and due to Christianity. Religion, however, urges you to rise about your animalistic self. That's hard. Throwing that burden off your shoulders brings relief. And Enlightenment has shown an additional "justification" for replacing goodness with knowledge. Chirstianity (and Judaism, too, but it's never been a significant social force) is in decline for over two centuries. Now that secularists are in a majority, Christians have become an annoyance: they remind the socialist secularists that there is a distinction between good and evil.
Just as one hates a witness of one's indisretion, Europe --- and increasingly America as well --- hates Christians as witnesses of its indiscretion. And what greater indiscretion can you find than abandoning G-d altogether?
G-d help us to keep this country close to its Christian roots and Judeo-Christian values. Keep faith, my friend, for your own sake and for the rest of us. You may be surprised to hear this from this Jew, but I do think that if anything saves this country and the entire Western world from destruction it is Christianity in America. Unfortunately, here too so many Christians --- and even more of my fellow co-religionists --- have abandoned core values for Leftism of one form or another.
Keep faith and know that you are not alone. But do not expect the leftists to wake up any time soon.
I don't think they 'hate' Christians. I think they fear Christians.
It makes sense if you view their comments in this light.