Kelly, please note that the person we were talking to was a Christian.
True, it does seem that more people that lean toward atheism hold more anger, but try to relate the topic to us as Christians. When Christ said "whatsoever ye do to the least ot them" he was speaking to the saved, not the lost.
As Christians, we may be much more capable of hatred/anger toward God and His laws than we're aware of.
Kinda like when you do something just because you know you should, but inwardly you're loathing doing it. To top it off, we get even angrier if something bad happens/we don't get thanked, and we JUST go done doing something right we didn't even want to do....we feel as if we should be rewarded, not punished, right?
If anything, it seems that Christians might be guilty of even more hatred, in light that we have been shown grace and should be more capable of love.
Chrys