Why dislike atheists?
I would observe that the majority of atheists I’ve met are angry and bitter.
Neither quality endears humans to other humans. Certainly not all atheists
are bitter and angry... just he majority I’ve met.
Atheists, by definition, assert certainty in an area they cannot prove, given
they do not have all knowledge. If they claim to know everything, they ascribe a characteristic of God - omniscience - to themselves. Look, the majority of us just don’t believe atheists are god.
That’s a start. What’s likable about someone who denies that creation had a creator, attribute it to chance by claiming to be god themselves, and then go through life bitterly and angrily attacking the faith of others...?
Not endearing to me, certainly.
But, hey, it’s a free country. No one will be an atheist in the end.
RE: I would observe that the majority of atheists I’ve met are angry and bitter.
Well, what can I say? The author(s) of this Washington Post piece makes the following observation in contrast to your observation :
“Studies of apostates — people who were religious but later rejected their religion — report feeling happier, better and liberated in their post-religious lives.”
Both of you can’t be right here.