RE: Antitheism
February 3, 2016 at 2:14 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2016 at 6:10 pm by Mister Agenda.)
Excited Penguin Wrote:Atheism is a state of mind, the state of not holding any belief that a proposed or conceived deity is actually real. Antitheism is active opposition to theism. Active opposition to theism is doing more to dissent against theism than merely passively supporting it (like agreeing with dissent against theism on the internet).Quote:I think you're just dumb, since you seem to think antitheism and antitheist aren't words describing the same state of mind.
Ones actions can be consistent with antitheism without being motivated by antitheism. For example, if you are a political secularist, you can be for changing the motto on US money back to E Pluribus Unum and still be a Christian. If I would rather 'God' be taken out of the Pledge and say so on the internet, that is not the same thing as actively opposing it being in the Pledge, and if my motivation is a love for freedom of religion, my doing so doesn't make me an antitheist in any sense.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.