Atheists don't really hate religion. They are simply deeply envious of religious people. Why is this? Because they lover their atheism, and instinctively know that they are going to Hell because of it. They are jealous of the religious who are going to Heaven. So, it isn't hate. It is deep envy.
Ok, let me explain what most Atheists think about religious people.
Most Atheists think religious people are sincere in their delusion. We as Atheists do understand that you "feel God's love" and you feel good thinking that God created everything and he will take care of you in this life and in afterlife. Believing in your preferred religion gives you satisfaction, especially when your irrational belief is confirmed by millions of equally irrational people around the world. Believe me, I do understand that you are happy that you'll not go to hell because you believe.
However, just because you believe and feel God's love in your body, it does not make any difference, your behavior/belief is irrational. It is still a delusion.
BTW, Atheists do not believe in any of it. Be it heaven, God, hell, evil spirits, angels etc. So stop saying we want to go to heaven.
On the other hand, it looks like religious people do not want to investigate for themselves whether their claims are true or not. They just want to believe what they believe, period.
If you present me with one shred of evidence that God exists, I'll re-consider it. Believe me Atheists want to believe God exist, but unfortunately we cannot reconcile God with observable reality.
Atheism frees you up. You know this is the only life you got, so live well. There is no afterlife.
Alright, I will state that part of what I was saying in my post you quoted above was simply talk, almost for the sake of talking. But let's look at what you say from the other side.
Look at the question, "How do I as an atheist know for a fact that God does not exist? Is my atheism truly logical sense, or is at least part of it merely a wish or desire on my part?
Forget all the mushy feelings that theists might have for God. Forget even the idea of God, and look at the scientific aspect of "cause and effect."
Everything that science has found in nature and the universe so far, has one or more causes that brought it into existence in the form that it exists in. In fact, the greater the scientist, the more he is out to find the "why's" of anything and everything. Why does it exist? What caused it to exist this way? What are the causes that made it happen?
In fact, we are so into finding out the cause of things, that we can't even conceive of anything not having a cause. Everything has a cause, and the cause has a cause, and that cause has a cause, etc., etc.
This brings us to entropy. Entropy at its base and core suggests everything is in dispersal mode. Everything is trying to diffuse itself evenly and equaly throughout all space/time. While there is much theoretical thinking about entropy, nobody has found anything that could be considered reverse entropy.
If entropy had existed forever, everything would have been dispersed and diffused long ago. But we know that this is not the case. How do we know? Because complexity exists. Thus, entropy must have had a beginning... because it couldn't have existed forever. But we don't see anything that looks like a beginning of entropy. Check with science. Science says this.
Complexity is the antithesis of entropy. Entropy is trying to break down complexity. Like as there must have been a beginning to entropy, that beginning must have had much higher complexity than we see around today.
One of the main features that we see in complexity is, nothing that is more complex comes about because of, or from, something less complex. For example. A highly complex snowflake seems to come from a much less complex batch of water molecules. Yet, the conditions of temperature and air movements and dust in the air and solar energy, are actually way more complex than the snowflake that they form out of the less complex water.
The point is, there is something that is so extremely complex, that it could form the complexity of the mind of man, using universal cause and effect, across multitudes of years, in the face of all-pervading entropy, that brought this whole "thing" into existence. If there wasn't, this universe wouldn't exist. It is scientifically self-evident.
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The above is standard science. It isn't science theory. It is science fact. You can Google it and read all about it here and there. Or you can delve into the science text books to see it.
Whatever started this whole universe going, whether or not you want to call it God, leaves a whole lot of room for at least the great possibility that God exists. In light of this, staunch atheism turns into a religion, because something that could easily fit the definitions of "God," does exist... or at least existed.
Any atheist who doesn't at least examine this thoroughly and thoughtfully, is doing himself a great disfavor.
