Anti-Theism

[The Grand Nudger]

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.

Atheism is a single line item comment on whether or not you believe in gods.  Anti-theism is not....and people who do believe in gods can be anti-theists themselves...though we traditionally called them maltheists or misotheists.  People who believed that the gods did exist, or may exist..but that people should forget about and/or ignore them in that case.

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?

I have moral objections in addition to my intellectual objections, sure.  To specific theistic concepts and to the theistic concept itself.  I think that theism i akin to turning your back on the baby and, instead, caring for the cubs of the wolf that's hunting...for your fuckin baby, lol. A stunning dereliction of moral duty, and an abrogation of moral authority. Theism, however placidly employed at any present moment, lays all the necessary groundwork for misery. A primed explosive waiting for someone to intentionally or even accidentally set it off....assuming it doesn't just go off by itself for no discernible reason.