I don't find that 48% disapproving if there son married an atheist surprising.
I mean. A lot of those people likely expect atheists to not go on into the "good" afterlife and instead be stuck in the bad one.
Having your eternal soulmate stuck in eternal hellfire would probably suck.
It's not so much that most religious people HATE atheists.
It's just they're either
A) Worried about them
B) Question the judgement of someone who can't feel the presense of god in there life... which is as natural to them as seeing light or hearing sound.
C) The group who thinks they work for the anti-christ or have no morals, but this is the anti-gay group too.
D) Find most atheists preachy and smug as some love bringing up atheism when it doesn't matter or go out of their way to trash a religion.
As for why more people hate Atheists then Muslims?
There are a lot of people who believe in Christianity and other religions that don't believe that the only way to go to heaven by just following that religion.
Not beliving in god at all though... that might piss him off?
Also. It's easier to convert people of a different religion. Often times i think the converted are the only really religious people out there... as they are the only ones enthusiastic about their faith and accepting of others often times.
