Misotheism...

Quietly and unobtrusively, millions of people across these British Isles are leaving church and deciding instead to embrace a secular lifestyle. The move may give them no obvious discomfort; it may even be a relief to lay down the burden of unevidenced belief. A little-used term – misotheism – defines those who are said to hate God (or gods), though we may wonder why anyone would waste time by “hating” an imaginary being. Despite what believers may say, atheists aren’t “rejecting” God (and even to talk in this way is to beg the question: that there is a God who atheists are too stubborn to acknowledge).
     Once the religious proposition has stopped making sense to them, atheists are not required to engage believers in a war of words, or debate them on the finer points of doctrine. They don’t have to “fight the good fight” in their antipathy to any religious tradition. There is no need for atheists to become argumentative, confrontational or mired in a mindset of dissent. Like Charles Darwin, they may simply walk pass the church door, hear a verse of some half-remembered hymn and carry on walking.
     The point of atheism is not to become the loyal opposition, forever finding fault with the articles of faith. The point of atheism is to leave religious fantasies behind.