(December 4, 2017 at 9:22 am)LuisDantas Wrote: I consider myself an anti-theist, as well as an atheist, ignostic and apatheist.
To me it is not about whether there is some deity - the concept is so vague and so personal that literally anything may be and probably is considered a god, including several undeniably real entities - but whether belief in deities should be encouraged or warded against.
God does not exist, but belief in his existence does exist and is very much worth discouraging.
It should be challenged sure, if the claims of the past were never challenged we never would have climbed out of the theocracies of the middle ages.
But I would also warn even atheists, that we wont get a utopia either. I'd rather say we should promote skepticism rather than say "discourage". I think humans really can only seek an imperfect but more neutral secular world, but not a perfectly "godless" planet.
I'd only agree that the monotheisms of antiquity are far to authoritarian as written to be valued in the interpretations of the past. That certainly is worth discouraging.
