(February 3, 2016 at 11:49 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:Excited Penguin Wrote:That's fascism, not antitheism. Get your definitions straight. Being an antitheist only means being against religion/theism. To take a "further" step and be against people, that's new territory, one antitheism doesn't cover. That's misanthropy/authoritarianism.
There's nothing in the definition of antitheist that prevents one from also being an authoritarian fascist. Sadly, they are by no means exclusive terms.
I don't think you are justified in making that comparison, however. Fascism is a form of irrationality in itself. Antitheism isn't.