Anti-Theism

[Whateverist]

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.

Only because it doesn't fit.  That doesn't mean that there aren't people who mobilize their objections.  Hitchens comes to mind as a vocal and evangelizing anti-theist.  Plenty of atheists reference his material with regards to the abrahamic god..but miss, I think, the thrust of his contention that the abrahamic god is just one expression of why -theism- is abhorrent.  

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?

The term is pretty explicit in that regard, don;t you think?  Anti-theism.  Not anti-christianism, anti-hinduism, anti-islamism....etc.

But a-theism should then be without the same thing anti-theism is against, theistic ideology as you put it.  I guess to be without any belief in god pretty much amounts to the same thing.  Alrighty then, always good to get clear on the terms.

Apparently "ideology" is most commonly used in a political setting.  When I have strong objections to a political movement, they are usually moral objections more than intellectual objections.  I wonder if that is true for your anti-theism as well?  I have moral objections to the way the Westboro baptists ideology manifests itself.  I have strong moral objections to the way scientology is practiced.

Would you characterize your objections to theist ideology as being moral objections?