Please raise your hand if you're an atheist AND antitheist... You are my peeps and I'd like to follow, and befriend you.
I'm an atheist... To be antitheist, I'd have care about theism..
I respectfully disagree.
I absolutely care about theism, inasmuch as it effects all our lives.
The influence of religion on public policies should matter to all of us.
@KKGator
"The influence of religion on public policies should matter to all of us."
Of course, but I'm still not antitheist...
Humankind must end religion before religion ends humankind.
Yes I am antitheist, what uniformed people call militant atheists.
I'm not particularly bothered by being called a militant atheist.
It kind of keeps people from getting in my face with their religious bullshit.
What do people who don't wear uniforms call you?
@LovinLarge uninformed my bad. Fingers can't keep up with my mind.
@DavePeet Thank you for accepting my jest in the spirit it was intended.
I am atheist and anti-religion, though I'm not automatically anti-religious person. My view is that the congregation is the preacher's first victim, so I like to give religious people a chance... If they start trying to convert other people though...
Then thatβs where it ends. I judge by who you are as a person, moral code, manners. What I cannot deal with is anyone who is a manipulater, controlling, and one who looks for excuses for their misdeeds or bad doings.
I don't have any beef with religion or religious people, as long as they don't try to push extreme religious beliefs on me thru legislation or govt. policy. Live and let live...I just want them to leave me alone to be me.
My hand is raised, my friend and companion in the quest to explore the universe.
I'm more complex than this, but this description does fit a fragment of my life.
I am not an antitheist because it implicates theists as people to be against. I have no problem with the many theists in this world who I call friends, those who do not proselytize. Live and let live, love and let love.
@SeaGreenEyez I completely understand that. But there is an implied bias towards theists in "antitheism".I read alot of prejudice towards theists on this site. I was just making a distinction.
@SeaGreenEyez Iβm trying to understand. Are you saying one can be anti theist without being disdainful of theists? And that anti theism is not like anti semitism or anti-black racism, because those are cultures or skin color? It seems like a fine line to me. Maybe anti theism is more tied to the Christian faith?
Of course I hate the harm that religions does. But insofar as it helps or does good, there is still a part of me which despises its lies, and especially arrogant belief in those lies.
He who says he knows anything, does not yet know as he ought
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@SeaRay215ex Not trying to be difficult, but I'm uncomfortable about whether that analogy holds? Perhaps for those instances when when the claim is that religion helps society and if the addition is made that the rapist claims that his victims weren't really victims at all because he gave them pleasure? But in my statement above I was also thinking of the situation in which someone claims that religion helps them personally, and of the quote by George Bernard Shaw: "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.β In any case, I thank you for giving me something to ponder further as I have not fully resolved the issue to my satisfaction at this time.
I raise my hand and say hi.
I say love the believers, question the beliefs.
Atheist, antitheist, existentialist and not spiritual at all here.
I do not believe there is a god.
I am against all organized religion.
My Youtube Channel is called CompelledUnbeliever.
I do take much caution in calling myself an anti theist. Many automatically think it is someone who is agaist thest the human beings. Apologist will pounce on the wors play whenever possible.
@David1955 You are correct. In my case I doubled down for at least a decade. It was actually studying the Bible that was the straw that broke the camels back. After so long I jist could not ingnore the glaring evidence that the Bible was not inspired by god. Down went the playing card house.
My channel is directed at challenging Christian Funamental beliefs. I do not know who most of my subscribers are. I know most are ironicaaally atheist. I title many of my videos in such a way to try to get the click from Chistians. As a result my target audience does not want to hear a thing I say. Though I have gotten some feedback from Christians that said "I never thought of that".
My channel wil always be very small for this reason. Also frankly I am not that good of an entertainer. I simply say it how it is. My production quality is limited due to my ingorance. I had no idea how to even edit when I started. I still learn new things every day. If I go to your little island (lol) I would like to meet you and my friend Notja Witness from YouTube also.
As a lifelong atheist, the vast majority of my friends are Christians. They love me for who I am.
We don't discuss religion.
Thatβs a good way to be. We would all be better off. Good you can find that balance.
As a life long atheist I always assumed that I was generally antithesist. Just assumed they were commensurate, but its seems perhaps I am mistaken.
I am definitely atheist. I do not believe in any God in any form. But by separating antithesism separately, it seems that the term takes on a different meaning. It seems that antithesism suggests a particular antagonism against those who are theist.
Am I misinterpreting what you mean by antitheism. I am not antagonistic against theists unless they try to proselytize or influence politics negatively. They just do not register highly on my radar. I tolerate or ignore.