(December 5, 2017 at 6:42 am)Khemikal Wrote:(December 4, 2017 at 9:59 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Maybe the way to nail down what an anti-theist is is to say how being that is different from being an atheist.
Sure. An atheist doesn't believe in gods. Full stop. An anti-theist holds strong objections to theistic ideology.
Looks like you're not going to let me hang an "evangelical skeptic" moniker on you to differentiate what you are as an anti-theist over and above what I am as a simple atheist. I'm sure there are varieties of theistic ideologies which we all hold strong objections to. Everybody hates the ideology of the Westboro baptists. For that matter, most of the theists we meet here are anti-theist in regard to denominations that aren't their own. Christians tend to hate what mormons believe. I hate scientology; if I could, I'd have everyone who has profited from that church thrown in jail.
So would you say an anti-theist would be someone who holds strong objections to every form of theistic ideology, or just most of them?
