RE: Antitheism
February 3, 2016 at 11:14 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2016 at 11:31 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(February 3, 2016 at 1:54 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:Every single person on these forums who identifies as an atheist and ever talked shit about theism or religion, whether they realized they were talking about the former or not, were effectively being antitheists. This is a public forum. You talk shit about God or any theistic religion, you're an antitheist. If you don't want to be one, stop talking shit about God. You can be secular without criticizing a theistic religion. Christianity is theistic. Countless times I've seen people who now identify as non-antitheists criticize Christianity. What more is there to say? This is childish and ludicrous.Excited Penguin Wrote:Let me be more polite here.
Your definition is not wrong. Neither is theirs. You are simply seeking to get out of it in a dishonest manner. I don't know precisely why - maybe political corectness, who knows?
ac·tive
ˈaktiv/
adjective
adjective: active
1.
(of a person) engaging or ready to engage in physically energetic pursuits.
"I needed to change my lifestyle and become more active"
2.
doing things for an organization, cause, or campaign, rather than simply giving it one's support.
"she was an active member of the church"
Definition 2 would be the one that applies to antitheism.
I've even been told I'm slandering people for calling them antitheists. Would I be slandering him if I called him a human being and he didn't agree with it? No, because that's what he is. It's the same with antitheism, I'll bet, even though I don't remember ever seeing him criticizing God or Christianity in any way, I'll bet anything he did do it.