In my own experience, one hears the claim more often as “atheists hate religion” rather than “atheists hate god”. The likelihood of hearing it seems to correlate with how intolerant a brand of religiosity one is dealing with (I can’t think of an easy way to test that intuition empirically at the the moment), so I tend to attribute it to projection.
In my own experience, one hears the claim more often as “atheists hate religion” rather than “atheists hate god”. The likelihood of hearing it seems to correlate with how intolerant a brand of religiosity one is dealing with (I can’t think of an easy way to test that intuition empirically at the the moment), so I tend to attribute it to projection.