@Gambit: I think that is also a very large part of it, too. To me it is certainly a major reason, but not the absolute reason...to me the hypocrisy rather than the familiarity is what gets me more than anything.
@Pocaracas: I shouldn't say "hate christians" as much as "hate christianity," I realize. It is an easy thing to generalize and I admit I do it quite often when it comes to religious identification. Ironically I live by the maxim "hate the sin, not the sinner" except it's more "hate the religion, not the religious," although this often falls apart quite quickly due to emotional reactions to being faced with a fundamentalist moron who has been presented with all the evidence and proof of evolution and continues to refute it in the face of overwhelming evidence while all the same practicing a life-shaping belief on the barest amount of "evidence."
@Pocaracas: I shouldn't say "hate christians" as much as "hate christianity," I realize. It is an easy thing to generalize and I admit I do it quite often when it comes to religious identification. Ironically I live by the maxim "hate the sin, not the sinner" except it's more "hate the religion, not the religious," although this often falls apart quite quickly due to emotional reactions to being faced with a fundamentalist moron who has been presented with all the evidence and proof of evolution and continues to refute it in the face of overwhelming evidence while all the same practicing a life-shaping belief on the barest amount of "evidence."
