My opinion is that many/some that are such adamant fighters against anything religion or specifically anything perceived as Christian are doing so in hopes to silence that inner call they are feeling. That inner conviction that just shouldn't be there but is. That Conviction of the Holy Spirit of God trying to get your attention yet you are so hostile to God or the thought of God you reach out to strike out at anything you perceive to be Christian or representing a higher power in hopes by somehow conquering or prevailong over that you can quieten that inner call within longing to know the Creator of your soul/spirit and longing for reconciliation to God. You somehow feel by overcoming someone who represents God, whether it's Church, a Preacher, or a person that calls themselves Christian that you can defeat and silence God, by proxy. Sorry but that cannot be done. If God is dealing with you personally nothing but direct communication and talking with God will satisfy that longing and that inner calling that you are feeling and experiencing.
Christians know that calling as an inner hunger or thirst longing to be fulfilled. I can't stop it, Bill can't stop it or any other person on here stop it. Only reconciliation with God can stop and satisfy that inner longing and thirst you have. In Jesus Christ alone will those who seek truth and seek God find it and find Him. All of our souls long to be reconciled to the creator and we all long to find inner peace, a peace that only God can give through Jesus Christ ( God coming in physical form unto physical man).
Matthew 5:6 (NIV)
{6} Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
John 4:13-14 (NIV)
{13} Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
{14} but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 6:35-37 (NIV)
{35} Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
{36} But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.
{37} All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
John 7:37-39 (NIV)
{37} On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
{38} Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."
{39} By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.