Life's too short for hatred, Ed. We're here to love, be joyful & engender liberation through learning in a Cosmos of infinite beauty and wonderment. To this end, we must forever be wary of the obstacles in the path to all-inclusive objective enlighenment. The bible is one such obstacle - be it in terms of fundamentalist literalism or allegorical liberalism, much less the suffering it has caused, and continues to cause, thousands of years down the line.

It's more about fear than hate; fear of the sort of goodness it inspires in the dark hearts of the faithful; fearful that the guttering candle-flames of Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking et al will soon be snuffed out by a literal starless & bible-blackness and consigned to same fate as the Ionian Philosophers of 500-600 BCE.