Why have atheists left extremely hateful hateful comments on the Pope's Twitter account?

[Rebecca]

First off... why do you assume that it is only atheists who are leaving those tweets? Not one of them claim to be an atheist and for you to assume they are is extremely bigotted. Could be protestants or Jews or pagans or boys who were abused by catholic preists or just about anyone. The catholic church too a major beating and has lost most of it's influence on those other than devout catholics when all the molestation and cover ups became public.

Second, the pope is a controversial figure and many people hate the pope and the catholic religion... he is going to get hate posts, live with it.. all controversial figures get negative tweets.

Third you can;t actually commonet on the popes twitter account... all people can do it leave their own tweets on their own accounts about the pope..... AND the article even says that posts were left BEFORE the popes account was even opened... therefore could not have been on his account. So... your "question" is inaccurate is so many ways all it does is show you have no idea what you are even thinking about.