Questions for your Religious friends.

[Angrboda]

Amazing research. You mean to tell me 2 diametrically opposed groups dislike each other? /sarcasm

I don't see them as any more diametrically opposed than Buddhists, yet Buddhists are better liked. You're minimizing the reality for Reasons[tm].

I dislike arguing with atheist, but that doesn’t mean I dislike atheists. Both of those are a far cry from hating anyone. I’m certain non of the question in those studies was “do you hate atheist?”

Don't be disingenuous. The results of numerous studies confirm it. Now you're just trying to deny reality. It's not a good look.

Honestly I would expect a minority group of typically hyper-skeptical, opinionated, vocal nonconformists with axes to grind to be on the colder side of many social scenarios.

So you're a bigot who lumps atheists as a whole into a stereotype which religious people have helped to create. Atheists are no more this stereotype than women are all gold diggers and blacks are all lazy. It's similar to the old, "I don't hate homosexuals, I just wish they'd stop kissing in public; it's disgusting." It's just a convenient bit of prejudice for you to hang your hat on. You're fine with atheists as long as they don't open their mouths, because if they do, then they become hyper-skeptical, opinionated, non-conformists. This is not a new approach. Groups have been oppressed throughout the ages by demanding that if they exist at all, that they try to be invisible. It's been used by haters of Jews, of blacks, of women, of gays, and now by you.

Both sides operate with an exaggerated Pygmalion effect was my only point. I don’t hate atheist and I assume atheists don’t hate me.  I assume most people’s reactions are not carefully curated speech, but reactions to beliefs and outside elements.Do you assume Christians would say something negative if u stated to them directly “hey, I’m an atheist, I was wondering why u hate me for my beliefs”

My question was why religious people dislike atheists more than even people who worship false gods. Your response has been to deny, and then to try to have your cake and eat it too by providing a stereotype to justify that dislike. You're talking out of both sides of your mouth. Apparently the subject makes you feel uncomfortable enough to lie and dissemble about it.