Absolutely. Before finding this forum I spent some time on atheist forums where I regularly witnessed enormous hostility on the part of the regulars toward believers who would stop in. Most of these were simply practicing apologists hoping to pose an argument to shake up atheist satisfaction with disbelief. The more dogmatic of these were no great loss when they’d finally move on. But rarely there’d be someone more sincere in their desire to understand other points of view and less in a hurry to push an agenda. But these would always be pushed out by the unrelenting hatred of many anti theists.
My theory is that the most hard bitten of these anti religionists are those raised in one in a manner they found intolerable, in the end leaving feeling they’d been lied to by those entrusted with his development. I have no objective support for that nor do I care to look for any.
What drove me away from those sites was the resentment and suspicion I’d draw by challenging the reasonableness of the way believers were treated and suggesting that something was off in anyone who treated others this way. Trust me I don’t miss anything about it not even the casual reinforcement of baseline agreement. They were every bit as consumed with arguing the positive nonexistent of something they couldn’t explain as believers often are to justify their belief in something ultimately unexplainable. I was always willing to concede the reasonableness of God belief so long as that didn’t include “and so should you”. I believe I understand what it is about the human condition which supports and probably contributed to the advent of God belief. What that is real, important and dynamic. I just don’t feel right about viewing what that is as emanating from a being in its own right who has created everything and offers an outstanding suite of afterlife benefits. So I’m a non Christian but I have to acknowledge that Christianity does provide a cultural basis for recognizing and promoting the subtle but very important aspect of our humanity which God belief supports. I certainly have no brilliant alternative to offer and anyway something like that would have to emerge organically. It could never succeed as someone’s super duper great idea. See for example Dianetics.