I've had a lot of atheist friends throughout my life, and the ones I got closest to are always stand-up people who are generally good people who are welcoming and capable of civil conversations about beliefs they don't share with me. Some of my favorite conversations are discussions about God and Christianity with friends who aren't believers, in fact.
In fact, one of my best friends is an atheist, and I always joke that one day, I'm going to get her to convert. It's only a matter of time, and the clock on her disbelief is ticking.
But I digress.
The point is that I don't have a problem with a good-natured atheist because my beliefs don't bother them, and they don't insult me for having beliefs, at least in any serious capacity. What I do have a problem with, however, is the militant anti-theist, and ever since the internet's invention, these anti-theists have become the third part of one of my favorite jokes:
"A vegan, a libertarian, and an anti-theist walk into a bar. You know this because they've told everyone immediately."
Anti-theists are, in my opinion, some of the most easily angered people on the planet, with egos so fragile that the mere mention of the "sky daddy" they seemingly don't believe in causes them offense, and they have to immediately go on the attack.
To give you a good idea of what I mean, a Reddit post in r/atheism detailed someone getting angry at the mention of a belief in God being better than the alternative in the movie "Project Hail Mary."
Oh no, the Ryan Gosling alien movie is ruined because...
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) July 12, 2026
Someone mentioned God. pic.twitter.com/dmH7WBok2w
If you've never seen the movie, the context is that humanity is facing the end of the world, and one of the characters asks another if they believe in God, to which she responds, "It's better than the alternative," the point being that it's better to believe there's an all-powerful force watching over humanity than the acceptance of absolute doom we may not escape from.
One of the movie's key themes is pushing through impossible odds and stepping into the moment even if you don't want to, and finding a way through the dark with whatever light you can find. God would realistically be a subject brought up in such a situation. It'd be weird if He wasn't, but the mere mention of Him caused an anti-theist to sputter and huff.
I've been running into them more and more lately. Ever since I started doing Biblical deep dives, they've been offering snide comments and insults, especially on my most popular videos that have now reached over a million.
You can wade into the comments yourself and see random anti-theists going apoplectic over treating God with any kind of seriousness.
But the funniest one that came from this video is that one of them attacked the sponsor of the video, Lyons Tea Exchange. According to its owner, my good friend and fellow YouTuber, Sydney Watson, she was contacted by email from a militant anti-theist saying that a boycott will be started if she continues to support "delusions" and "pedophilia."
To be honest, I wasn't angry, and neither was she. We both found it kind of hilarious that someone would get that butt-hurt over God, but it did reinforce something I've wholeheartedly believed for some time.
God is real because he's so hated by people of the world, or, as the anti-theist that emailed Sydney said, the people who "live in reality."
They sort of reinforce my faith because they're effectively paraphrasing the Bible about themselves.
John 15:18-19 has Jesus saying, “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."
I think it's funny that the anti-theist told Sydney he "lives in reality" in his hateful email. He proudly is "of the world" by his own confession. The Redditor who hated the God line in Hail Mary doesn't think God is realistic or scientific enough to be mentioned in a movie that heavily involves science.
They reject God, don't believe He exists, but can't seem to shrug off mentions of him and go about their day. They hate Him so much that they have to reduce themselves to outraged tantrums at the mere mention of Him.
Imagine having to live a life like that. It would be miserable. God is everywhere. You can't escape Him, and I don't just mean metaphysically. I mean, our very civilization is defined by Him. Even civilizations outside our Western one have Him growing in popularity.
Haven't reviewed the data nor do I know the details but if true Hasan Piker is gonna have a heart attack. pic.twitter.com/Y9fYnACq2A
— Metatron (@pureMetatron) December 22, 2025
They live in self-imposed abject misery because they can do nothing but scream, insult, and mock a God who is in their face at every turn. Even in their most anti-God hangouts, God is there, because their entire vibe is hating Him.
It's no wonder they get so idignant and irrational. They're mentally and emotionally worn down. Their hate of something they can't escape has damaged their egos so tremendously that all they have to react with is more hate.
I feel bad for them, in a way, and I have one suggestion for them. Something that will help them live a more peaceful, calm life.
Have they met Christ?
