RE: My anti-theistic perspective
February 1, 2016 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2016 at 2:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that if you listened to atheists and anti-theists describe the differences in their respectively held positions you might think otherwise.
Anti-theists don't just care that most people are theists...they care about what that appears to entail. If belief in these gods did something else, if it worked......then maybe a pragmatic argument could at -least- be made...but it doesn't even do that. This...and there's much much more, is a little more elaborate than "I don't believe in god".
An atheist just doesn't believe what most people believe, in that context.
Anti-theists don't just care that most people are theists...they care about what that appears to entail. If belief in these gods did something else, if it worked......then maybe a pragmatic argument could at -least- be made...but it doesn't even do that. This...and there's much much more, is a little more elaborate than "I don't believe in god".
An atheist just doesn't believe what most people believe, in that context.
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