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Apparently you haven't had people try and force their beliefs upon you. I have seen just that, through manipulation of the community, the legal system, and physically. Everything has to be THEIR way and no one elses. Tolerance for others? I have yet to see it.
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Tolerence isn't about someone attempting to influence your belief system to reflect theirs. Tolerence is allowing someone to exist peacefully despite a difference in beliefs. And, certainly, while their are intolerent Christians, most just live and let live - sure, they may not *LIKE*, say, gays, but they certainly aren't attempting to infringe their existance.
Atheists are quite the opposite, in general - many want to remove any and all vestiges of religion from any place they may see it, even though the simple sight of most Christian symbology does nothing to infringe upon an atheist.
In my personal experience, most Christians are fairly pleasant people to be around - most self-proclaimed atheists (although the people I'm referring to are more appropriately termed "anti-theist"), on the other hand, come off as condescending dolts who's rationale for their own perspective is, quite sadly and humorously, fatally flawed logically.
PS: Oh, and I've had plenty of people try to "force" their beliefs on me, and I've said no and moved on. Simple. I've even had someone try to sell me a candy bar while I was entering the grocery store. Oh no!!!
If you mean "force" as something stronger than what I'm implying, than you should reserve your hate for those particular people - not generalize an entire group because of those idiots. In the end, doing so makes you the smaller person, as that's akin to saying that because a black guy mugged you, all blacks should be afforded no tolerance.