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John Adams was not a traditional Unitarian, as we know them today, nor have I ever come across any reference to his denial of the deity of Christ. What you say may be true, I will not claim to know the heart of a living man, let alone a man dead two hundred years, but I have never heard that and can find no direct reference other than one of the elders of his church holding to Unitarianism and his father supporting that elder as a deacon. Unitarians were Congregationalists at that time and as a whole held to Covenant theology. Most religious people do not hate atheists, they hate "sin". Atheists deny the existence of sin, by their lack of belief in a moral definitive. Are all atheists Immoral? No. Are all religious people moral? No. The majority of atheists have no standard of behavior other than the society in which they live. A government of people whose behavior will change to fit the soicietal norm can only degenerate, having no standard other than changeable laws, in a society like that stability becomes a crime. People of faith are vilified today. Why? because their beliefs and influence prohibit our government from deleting our freedoms based on the modern cultural view that we are "free" to behave, personally, in any way without consequence. Acting irresponsibly is not free, someone is paying the bills. Is it a coincidence that religious people got to work, pay their bills, raise their children, and support charities more,"religiously", in general than their secular counterparts. I personally do not think so.