My anti-theistic perspective

[God of Mr. Hanky]

That much is true.

A better reason for being anti-theist isn't that theists are necessarily stupid, when in fact they aren't. The problem is that they teach theism, which contributes to much ignorance, no matter how intelligent the person who believes. Those who are too smart not to know better than what they are taught all too often will choose to fit in, and even teach it themselves - this may begin as a sincere effort to "reclaim" their own faith, but it contributes perversely to the culture of dishonesty, and it's an infection which to some degree sickens all of society (you know how evangelicals just cannot keep their shit to themselves).

Dude, they believe in a magic sky daddy. They're dumb. Come on.

Do you not understand how childhood indoctrination works? A toddler can be told things which are filed permanently into his head, and are very hard to remove at any point in his life because he heard them before he had developed any reasoning capacity by which such dumb ideas could be screened out. This is why theists all believe such ideas, almost 1000 years after talk of fairies, dragons, and angry gods became no longer topics discussed among intellectuals. Only those who find themselves confronted with an intellectual and moral crisis on what they have believed can be set free of being ruled by dumb theistic ideas which they were taught when so young.

Yes, I used to be that "dumb"!

As an anti-theist, I oppose the teaching of theism to children.