(February 3, 2016 at 4:49 am)Evie Wrote: Nope belief in a god is not effectively religious belief.
Some religious people aren't even theists and some theists aren't even religious or are even deists.
So you can't even get my point that anti-theism is different to anti-religion because theism is different to religion
So.... you're smart?
Theism is essentially religion.
Religion- the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Theism -belief in the existence of a god or gods, especially belief in one god as creator of the universe, intervening in it and sustaining a personal relation to his creatures.
That doesn't mean religion describes only theism. Merely that theism is included in the meaning of the word religion.