RE: The End Game of Atheism
June 26, 2013 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2013 at 10:34 am by ShadowWolf1986.)
(June 26, 2013 at 10:28 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:(June 26, 2013 at 10:13 am)ShadowWolf1986 Wrote: What is it?
Asked a different way, what is the end goal of Atheism?
For "atheism" to be a word that disappears from our vocabulary.
Once Yahweh, Allah, et al have all gone to the graveyard of forgotten gods (alongside Zeus, Odin and Ra), no one will ever have a need for the word.
It's like "alchemy". People once believed in it but you don't see groups of people getting together to protest "alchemy is bs" today do you? If any protest where to ever happen, people would give the protesters some strange looks and say, "yeah, everyone knows that". We're all a-alchemists. So there's no need for the word.
This is outside the scope of this thread.
(June 26, 2013 at 10:31 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The goal of secularism is no unnecessary entanglement of government and religion, and since people are always going to disagree on when it's uneccessary and when it's entanglement, it will always be an issue. I guess you could say the end goal is that it be less of an issue than today.
The end goal of humanism is world peace and prosperity with minimal suffering, maximum kindness, and a healthy ecology.
What you're probably really wondering about is the end goal of antitheism, which I presume would be no one believing in any God or gods. Of those of us who are antitheists, few of us would advocate using anything but sweet reason in that effort, so like the others, it's more of a committment to an ongoing journey than something we expect to actually happen due to our efforts.
The end game of Christianity would be everyone being a Christian, so speaking of end games at this point is pretty much equally constructive for either side.
How are Atheists, antitheists, secularists trying to achieve their goals?