While there are a few activist Atheists out there (usually college students new to the idea), most of us just prefer to be left alone to pursue our own lives. I don't hate anybody in general, I don't sit around all day fuming about believer-types. All you all spend a lot more time thinking about me than I do about you.
And yes, those who reject God hate Him, but don't forget the horrendous fear these people have deep within their souls- the fear of knowing, even if they don't consciously recognize it, that there is a God Who is a holy God and Who does not tolerate sin and rebellion and before Whom they will stand one day and be held accountable for their sin. A holy God Who offered a way of escape from eternal punishm ent by sacrificing Himself - a God Whose sacrifice they reject, a God Who they have spit on and ruthlessly worked to erase from the face of the earth. This is the God they innately know they will have to deal with someday.
So many believers tell me that I'm afraid that God exists that I've started to wonder if they aren't just projecting their fear that there is no God onto me.
Actually, the only time I think about atheists, aside from praying for people in general to find salvation, is when an atheist or an organizaton of atheists bursts onto the scene with some demand that will cost me my some or all of my religous freedom.
I have yet to see any group of Christians demanding that everyone be forced to attend church; however my children can be expelled from school for praying. That's the sort of thing that causes Christians to think about atheists.
So many believers tell me that I'm afraid that God exists that I've started to wonder if they aren't just projecting their fear that there is no God onto me.
Usually the simplist explanation for something is the correct one. What, exactly, would motivate someone to spend time and money to follow a group of people around, film them, use cutting-edge and daring camera techninques to make them look as much like goobers as possible, interject little commetaries during the film about what the subjects in the film believe- all for the purpose of discrediting them?
Why, for example, has no one infiltrated a militant abortion group, or a militant Muslim group, or a militant homosexual group that brainstorms and seeks methods to legalize adult-child sex? Why is it always Christians who have to be ridiculed and discredited? Hmmmmm?
Because it is the Christians and the One they represent who are the threat. And the people who feel compelled to shut us up do so based on their own base, natural emotions: hatred, contempt, and yes, fear