Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?

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There is reason to be leery of that sort of evidence.

Abstract
Evidence from four studies demonstrates that social observers tend to perceive a “false consensus” with respect to the relative commonness of their own responses. A related bias was shown to exist in the observers' social inferences. Thus, raters estimated particular responses to be relatively common and relatively unrevealing concerning the actors' distinguishing personal dispositions when the responses in question were similar to the raters' own responses; responses differing from those of the rater, by contrast, were perceived to be relatively uncommon and revealing of the actor. These results were obtained both in questionnaire studies presenting subjects with hypothetical situations and choices and in authentic conflict situations. The implications of these findings for our understanding of social perception phenomena and for our analysis of the divergent perceptions of actors and observers are discussed. Finally, cognitive and perceptual mechanisms are proposed which might account for distortions in perceived consensus and for corresponding biases in social inference and attributional processes.

David Greene, now at Carnegie-Mellon University.

in my psychology class they showed us an example of that. except the people had interaction with each other. they had an idea of what the consensus was. so their answer mostly reflected the popular consensus. but in this case, 
1; (not sure how to use a semi colon lol) ~1;~ they had no interaction with one another and no outside information, it was the day of the event for the most part. 
2; for those interviewed later, didnt agree with the popular consensus. still to this day the consensus is (i think) that muslims were responsible and that no secondary explosions existed or took part in the destruction of buildings.
bonus; even when reporters asked "it was a/the plane?" the people would still recall it the same. 

so i agree, group think basically. but i dont think that was the case here and to think it would be occurring on such a massive scale is, again, more ridiculous than what they are suggesting with their testimony in the first place.