RE: The End Game of Atheism
June 26, 2013 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2013 at 11:09 am by Mister Agenda.)
(June 26, 2013 at 10:31 am)ShadowWolf1986 Wrote:(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?
Atheists, as atheists, don't have a goal. It's just the word for someone who doesn't believe any God (or gods) is real. Theists don't have a goal as mere theists, either. Your goals depend on what else you are besides an atheist or a theist. Hindus and Christians are both theists, but their goals are very different.
As I said (to paraphrase), all most antitheists do to achieve their goal is try to make the case that theism is not reasonably justified. In this effort they may do some writing or speaking or put up videos; and so forth. Sometimes you run across someone who spouts off about banning it or somesuch, but that puts them at odds with atheists who are secularists (oppressing religion is not being neutral towards it or unentangled with it), bare-bones Buddhists, Unitarian Universalists, etc.
In America, secularists tend to try to achieve their goals by holding government accountable to established law.