(February 1, 2016 at 2:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I doubt that ignorance and malice exhausts all possible reasons that a person might be an atheist in the absence of anti-theism.What other possible reason might there be? Religion is demonstrably bad in that it inspires division among people, it encourages dogma and it opposes rational thinking by its very nature. And that's only off the top of my head. All we do here all day is criticise religion. How can one do that and at the same time claim he isn't an antitheist is beyond me. An atheist that is not an antitheist - that would be the exception, not the rule. An implausible one if you ask me, once said atheist learns certain things about religion's impact in human affairs throughout history.
Now then, there are degrees of antitheism to be considered here. I might be more antitheistic than some and less than others. All that proves is more or less empathy and or ignorance on my part concerning humans and, respectively, religion's influence upon the world.
