what I've experienced atheists think that religion is a social issue and believe that religion is the cause of war,violence, and such. When most religions are against such things. I just want to know why atheists have to think this way and why cant all people just live to respect each other and why atheists believe that the sooner religion is gone the better.
Part of the reason is that atheists have been hurt by someone in a formal religion. They just want to get away from being hurt. So, they try to claim that atheism is not a religion. They forget that the definition of "religion" -
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t - shows that any belief that people have is part of their personal religion.
Then atheists try to say that their atheism is not believing that God does not exist, but is simply the absence of belief that God does exist. So atheists try to get away from religion by forming a religion of non-belief. Now they have 3 religions:
1. atheism;
2. a religion of non-religion;
3. a religion of non-belief.
Unfortunately for them, they cannot get away from religion except by dying.