(August 28, 2015 at 9:06 am)comet Wrote:(August 28, 2015 at 8:43 am)Nestor Wrote: I describe myself as an anti-theist because the question of what others believe - whether a God exists or not - is not really important. It's the ignorant delusions, and how their belief about God effects the decisions they make in the actual world, that I'm against.
like being nice to others? or trying to give the extras one has to people that don't have them? kind of decisions?
Just sayin.
Yeah, like those. How about being nice because you've thought about good reasons to be nice? Because you value the present life more than one that exists in your imagination?
How is anti-theist a blanket statement? It simply means I'm against theism for its effects that I see as harmful - including the doing of good from ignorant motivations.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza