Don't give in to the misinformed so-called believers

How so do you diminish your beliefs?

Pity the victims, (including all genuine believers) hate the idea. Not complicated, it only gets difficult when some believers use it to expliot or abuse others.

For me personally I find it close to the same feeling I have for my divorce, I'm comfortable with living alone, but wish I didn't have too. Its alot cheaper and easier to handle than divorce, but it follows you around and haunts you at moments of weakness.

It sounds natural to hate an affiliation that ostracizes you for being not believing in their way. As many point out though, hatred begets hatred. It reminded of an old saying. "Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." Hate is the same way. Even so, if it's painful, maybe you should avoid it, or learn a new approach.

I no longer have a struggle with the part that I once believed. I still have a few quibbles with how the believers that I once associated with still behave.

I do not hate religion, or religious people. One of my closest friends was an army pastor (catholic himself) and we have discussions on morality, ethics, cricket, rugby, horse riding, cooking - usual discourse between adults apart from sex (taboo for catholics).
The prescence of god at a battle? If soldiers were helped to get through it by believing in a god - I am fine with it. That both sides claim gods support is enough evidence for me to know he does not exist.

Depends on what you mean by "hate". I don't use that word in the casual way many people will say, "I hate broccoli". I find religion tiresome and annoying, but understand that eradicating it from society and culture is the work of centuries to come, and I'm going to die in a world full of presuppositionalist bullshit. So I don't waste energy on being all up in arms about it, anymore than I waste energy grousing about serialist modern classical music. It's easier to just not listen to it.

No struggle at all. Religion is easy to despise.

Its effortless for me.

It's normal to hate those oppressing us

Don't hate Religion just have a sense of humor about it.

The only hate is of their hypocrisy and racism those who don't do this I don't hate

I don't "hate" religion. I just try to understand where it comes from.

Im an atheist, but the best people ive known in life are Christian. I tell people that im an atheist but have Christian principles.

Speaking personally, hating something implies expending negative energy toward something and religion doesn't merit the expense. If I invest a lot of myself in something, I can easily get rattled if it's attacked. With religion, there is no investment, so any discussion on my part is from a position of calm comfort, which I find can be much more aggrivating for the opposition.

I don't hate it, however, this bothers me when after I have told them my standing and they persist to try to force me to listen to their inane rhetoric this is when I go on the offensive.

Religion is, hate, fear and war. In some ways I support church burnings. I was hanging out with some guys I met at a slayer concert. Told them to burn a church we drove by. I was joking mostly. They got gas, and I talked them out of it. Yes, i fucking hate religion. Most brainwashing bullshit ever.

I do my best not to hate anything and I direct my mind away from "hate" if I find that I can dwell there. Do not give these things opportunity to thrive. Your thoughts are you. They become you.

I don’t hate religion....I try not to hate anything, hate is more destructive to self than to the object of our hate. In any case religion is an abstract, it’s a belief not an actuality. What I do dislike intensely is the damage that religious belief causes to the rationality and minds of otherwise sane and intelligent people, and when these people try to influence government policy with their religious dogma. On a personal level, I tolerate others’ views, especially those of friends who believe, but without disguising or watering down my own. I only confront others if they try to proselytise or tell me I’m wrong by not believing what they do, but that happens only rarely, and never amongst my friends or family,

Being an anti-theist I can understand your feelings.... I don't hate religion so much as despise what it does to people. Religion is a catalyst for hate and bigotry so I prefer not to have the same fault as my enemy does and try to instead place doubts in the minds of believers through being better educated on their religion than they are. Just by quoting a bible verse they never knew existed places doubts in the minds of those who let some worthless bum who can't hold a real job tell them what to believe and thereby sends more preachers back where they belong.... Flipping burgers for minimum wage....

I can understand your hate, and I think it must be incredibly difficult for non-believers in the US to cope with all the religious nonsense, especially now that the religious nutjobs seem to be gaining the upper hand on so many fronts.

Get rid of the hate, it harms you. Can you link up with other atheists?

Okay, this is a little different.

I fucken hate the occults. All of them. The Christian's, Jews, Muslims, Hindes...

Girl, as you age your gonna get ugly, fight a biological clock and die. Along the way, you can watch it happen to the people you love.

As they suffer watch them pray and beg to a non existent god.

Always keep in mind if the occults hadn't brainwashed society, it is likely we would have cured the human condition by now. If people didn't believe in heaven, they would fight death.

Occults are causing you to suffer in a much greater way than most atheist pussys will give them credit for.

Now use your inner Darwin. Go all Darth Maul on their shit.

Don't be the normal pussy atheist, who just accepts them for being idiots. Don't accept it. Feel and nurture that hate in you.

Get pissed. Get fucken angry.

Now, go fight a good fight.

Start a subtle conversion of their flock.

Weapons come in all forms, but knowledge masked with a smile is likely the most effective.

Go save a life.

Challenge their beliefs in heaven and you fortify a fight against mother nature.

I strongly oppose religion. I hate what it does in the world. I don't hate people for being religious. I strongly condemn religious hypocrites and phonies who exploit and use religion for financial or political gain. I focus on exposing religion for the delusion that it is, and believe religion should be criticised, condemned, exposed, and actively fought against in all constructive ways, and never give in to religious trickery or emotional blackmail, at which they excel. That what I focus on.

Let the anger go it’s poison

I can excuse people for being theist. They just don’t know any better. But when a professional theist spits out bullshit, knowing full well it’s bullshit, just to collect his pay, I do get offended.