[Serious] Comfort in Faith at Death

[Shell B]

A lot of people who are antitheists think that they aren’t on account of imagining antitheism to be something that it isn’t.

I think you're hinting that I'm an antitheist when I'm not. Be careful there. I've known theists to tell me I'm not an atheist when I am. If you're selling the same garbage, you're not very different.

For example, the idea that to be an antitheist you have to go around slapping the comfort out of dying people.

Who the fuck said or even hinted that? Nobody. I said I like that comfort enough that it leads me not to oppose theism. I didn't say antitheists are going around fucking with the dying. Ugh. That I even have to say that is frustrating.

Antitheism lies more in acknowledging that some comforting beliefs have attendant negative effects on individuals and groups, and in any case where those effects can be reduced or even eliminated with a reduction in those beliefs....and especially when that comfort isn’t the sole possession of those beliefs, it would be better to discourage that specific belief and reduce its authority and purchase in society.

I don't agree with you, and therefore I am not antitheist.

Antitheism is a common and uncontroversial opinion for atheists and theists alike, with an unfortunately sensationalized name.

Sadly, you've been the only person here treating it like it's sensationalized. Relax, man. No one is taking digs at your precious antitheism. I merely stated I'm not an antitheist and then asked how people felt about religious comfort at death. This was never a conversation about antitheism or a dig at it. I don't care about antitheism any more than I care about theism.