Your point is and will be well illustrated in these posts Greg.

And your comment well illustrates the meaning of those posts runner.

It is deceptive to accuse people of 'hate' when clearly there is no such emotion. Do you actually read what people write or do you stumble in like a bull in a China shop not caring what you break or ruin in the process. This is not the act of a Christian who seeks the truth, and in this context refuses to unveil the real and legitimate concerns over forced Christianity.

Christianity per se is not the problem, it is the people who act in God's name to force their will onto other people and who arrogantly defend their world-view as the only valid one. This happens within the Christian faith as well, if the Protestant vs Catholic tensions are anything to go by.

Many older Catholics of my acquaintance still believe Protestants are heathens and won't go to heaven. And it is the same God. SOME Muslims are saying death to the infidels or live by the creed of "you are either a Muslim or not a Muslim" where anyone other than Muslims are viewed with less respect - as is being identified as a huge problem in Britain.

That is real hate and to deny it is to allow evil to prosper. It is no longer acceptable for religions of any persuasion to force their will onto other people.

That is not hate.

Don't worry Runner soon you will receive your reward for casting aspersions on all non-Christians:

http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/

" Judgment Day!
May 21, 2011

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. Revelation 9:5."

I figure having read to Runner's insults for years, I've had more than my allotted 5 months of torment and can look forward to a world empty of fundamentalist Christians as they are swept into heaven.

Yay!

Do misotheists hate/reject god due to ignorance or perhaps due to a religious upbringing? I think the second option is more likely.

When you look at the hate the religious have for things like evolution and the big bang theory I ask myself the same question. In this case it is definitely due to ignorance. Unless people like runner would like to prove me wrong by actually explaining why he rejects/hates these theories.

There are three main types of people in the Christian world;
Christians - Agnostics - Athiests.
Christians believe in a Divine God almighty, a loving God.
and there are various types of Christians;
(1) A true believer who obeys the simple law of,"if you love the Lord your God and love your neibour as yourself then you break no laws.
(2) Then there is the Sunday morning christian singing louder than the rest. Many of them are not dedicated christians
(3) then there is corporate christians (the man made church sects)who use the bible and its scriptures as a corporate tool to make money.
Agnostics are neither believers nor non-believers.
They have the opinion that there may be a god or there may not be a god. They keep an open mind on it in the hope of finding the answer one way or the other.
Then there are the Athiests, who deny the existance of any god or religion.
The point I wish to make is we can all live in harmony together by respecting each others views and not try and force our opinions on others.
And for the record I am an agnostic.

I would guess that most angry atheists such as myself are not angry at god, but angry at Christians and the Church that feels it needs to impose their doctrine on my life.