RE: Comfort in Faith at Death
July 8, 2019 at 12:17 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2019 at 12:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
All types of theism contend the personal and intervening god. That’s what theism refers to.
Sure, they’re “tied in” but not by any necessity if each other that would make opposition to the one opposition to the other, and the manner in which they’ve been tied in to each other is one of antitheisms arguments.
A generally bad influence has coopted a valued and comfortable belief along its own self defining lines. Antitheism isn’t an issue of opposing the coopted belief , it’s not antiafterlifeism or anticomfortism.
Or, let’s try it another way. There are millions of ideas that theists do (and could) attach their theism too. To assume that antitheism is opposition to all of those other ideas is beyond ludicrous.
A person can think that it’s their “Christian duty” to pay their taxes.
Sure, they’re “tied in” but not by any necessity if each other that would make opposition to the one opposition to the other, and the manner in which they’ve been tied in to each other is one of antitheisms arguments.
A generally bad influence has coopted a valued and comfortable belief along its own self defining lines. Antitheism isn’t an issue of opposing the coopted belief , it’s not antiafterlifeism or anticomfortism.
Or, let’s try it another way. There are millions of ideas that theists do (and could) attach their theism too. To assume that antitheism is opposition to all of those other ideas is beyond ludicrous.
A person can think that it’s their “Christian duty” to pay their taxes.
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