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Christopher Hitchens offers his definition of an anti-theist:
"I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful."
How would you define an anti-theist, and are you one, or are you fine with defining yourself as a mere atheist?
I am an atheist inclined to fight against theocratic tendencies.
Believe what you want, but once your religious opinions enter the public sphere, my resistance will be approximately equal and opposite to theocratic efforts.
Practically speaking, if religiously oriented candidates run for election promising to support prayer in public or restrict abortion rights, I will donate to the opponent and vote for the opponent.
If people campaign to restrict sex education in schools, I will support sex education in schools.
If you try and siphon tax dollars to support your private hobby, I will fight to prevent that.
If you advocate for your religious views, or publicly proselytize, I feel free to do the same.
Does that make me an anti-theist, or does that make me an advocate of equality?
Christopher Hitchens offers his definition of an anti-theist:
"I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful."
How would you define an anti-theist, and are you one, or are you fine with defining yourself as a mere atheist?
I am an atheist inclined to fight against theocratic tendencies.
Believe what you want, but once your religious opinions enter the public sphere, my resistance will be approximately equal and opposite to theocratic efforts.
Practically speaking, if religiously oriented candidates run for election promising to support prayer in public or restrict abortion rights, I will donate to the opponent and vote for the opponent.
If people campaign to restrict sex education in schools, I will support sex education in schools.
If you try and siphon tax dollars to support your private hobby, I will fight to prevent that.
If you advocate for your religious views, or publicly proselytize, I feel free to do the same.
Does that make me an anti-theist, or does that make me an advocate of equality?
castro, pot, moa, all started the same way. then when they were done with the primary target, they turned on the rest of us.
does it matter what the rule is? or do you do the belief based gang bang type deal. Gang bang here meaning gang fight, you know, over colors, not rationality. you aint my sect, you aint my friend? ~ice-t
I believe there is somebody somewhere (I usually call them my dad or somebody else I've lost) that watches over me, because there are too many things that have happened to make me think differently.
However, I cannot stand religious people and avoid them at all costs.
Seems to me that anti-theist would be defined as anti god believers and not anti god. I only have disdain for those theist who push their religion as fact or actually believe non-believers choose and deserve going to a hell. The ones that go about their lives being nice and respectful of non-believers I have zero problem with.
Christopher Hitchens offers his definition of an anti-theist:
"I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful."
How would you define an anti-theist, and are you one, or are you fine with defining yourself as a mere atheist?
I guess I'm anti theist. I believe it's a spectrum though all way from cult to benevolent. I'm not so much about arguing about a personal belief in a God or higher power. I'm against people having that used against them in the form of religion. I think some believers are of that mind too so I don't know if anti theist is solely an atheist thing.
Christopher Hitchens offers his definition of an anti-theist:
"I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful."
How would you define an anti-theist, and are you one, or are you fine with defining yourself as a mere atheist?
I regard myself as opposed to believing things that aren't substantiated. In other words, I'm a skeptic. Religious faith and the truth claims it asserts without evidence are therefore just one of the things I disagree with and argue against, among people like those who voluntarily come here for the expressed purpose of discussing and debating such beliefs.
The term "anti-theist" or "anti-theism" suggests (to me at least) a sort of activist opposition to theism that doesn't really describe me. In Real Life (IRL) I very, VERY seldom have such conversations and only when invited (as they are when people come to forums like these). In almost all other contexts such conversations are superfluous and probably impertinent.
Even in the political realm, which is intermixed in this country with conservative religious ideology, my focus is still on critiquing thinking and policy that is not grounded in some sort of rational / empirical and justified thinking.
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