Why do a lot of religious people dislike atheists?

Full treatment Phil Zuckerman Ph.D. The Secular Life Why Americans Hate Atheists Last week, the Pew Research Center released the results of a new survey concerning who Americans would want – or rather, wouldn’t want – for an in-law. While about 10 percent of Americans said they’d be unhappy if a family member married someone of a different political persuasion, and about 30 percent of Americans said they’d be unhappy if a family member married a gun owner, nearly 50 percent of Americans said that they’d be unhappy if a family member married an atheist.

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It's part of the religious indoctrination to revile the unbeliever. In fact, simply calling someone an atheist is to describe him by what he does not believe; to call him an atheist is to call him the unbeliever. No one should ever think of himself as an atheist, but should instead define himself by what he does believe, whether a Buddhist, Materialist, Fetishist, or some other belief.

Since the choice of the name, atheist, is a label applied to the outsider, the unbeliever, it is created as a label for those who are to be reviled. Religious believers hate atheists because they have positioned atheists to be hated.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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