People have read and lived by the New Testament for centuries. It has made the world habitable. Even people like you are affected for good by the New Testament, and the Saviour it reveals. I love you because God loves you, and if I could, I would shed some light into you life. The Bible teaches that if one would rise from the dead and told you about Heaven and Hell you would not believe. If you won’t believe the Bible there is no hope for you.

Joseph Kennedy

Or, what about those people who do share your religion at this moment of time, but will eventually lose their faith? If you “had the capacity,” would your hate extend to them as well? Or would you love them now, and hate them (or dislike them to the fullest extent of your capacity) later?

It’s certainly big of you to leave “perfect hate” of atheists to your God, while only asserting in the subjunctive tense that, if you had the capacity to hate, you would hate this group of people. If you spoke a language with no subjunctive tense, and could not use this sort of grammatical hedging, would you err on the side of hating them in the simple present tense, or would you just decide not to hate them at all?

I’m just saying: belief systems do exist–and not just atheistic ones–that do not require adherents to quibble about aspect markers in deciding how strongly they must hate out-group members.