RE: No More Anti-Theists
August 28, 2015 at 11:17 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2015 at 11:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 28, 2015 at 10:23 am)jesus_wept Wrote: I dont have a problem with people believing in god and being an antitheist, a deist could quite possibly be one, so it's up to the individual to describe themselves how they like imo. I was just pointing out that many people were using the word wrong.
If you take a laser like view of theism, as not -just- the belief in a god, but in a "personal god"....the difference between theism and deism, then yeah, of course a deist can be an anti-theist. Anti-theism is not anti-deism, hehehehe. I think where many mis-use the word is in not recognizing a difference between "believing in a god" and "believing in a personal god with this or that desire". So, when a christian, for example, hears that you can believe in a god and still be an anti-theist - combined with the disdain that anti-theists often express for religious organizations, they think..."hey, I'm a christian anti-theist!". They aren't. Christ is in the theism camp, not the deism camp. Similarly, anti-theism is not a position on religion, as religion does not require a god, either theistic or deistic, though it is a position on those religions which -do- include a theistic god specifically...and perhaps more generally and indirectly, though not necessarily, religions which include deistic gods.
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