RE: Anti-theism and anti-religion
July 20, 2014 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2014 at 2:38 pm by Dystopia.)
(July 20, 2014 at 2:31 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote:(July 20, 2014 at 9:28 am)Blackout Wrote: After reviewing some of my posts and real life arguments I've came to the conclusion that I hold a frontal opposition to religion, but I'm not against the simple god concept, despite considering it silly. I positively criticize and claim to be against all religions, constantly trying to prove them false to believers, I think they are unnecessary and childish, a rational healthy mind shouldn't accept religion.
Can I be anti-religion without being an anti-theist, or does being anti-religion necessarily make me an anti-theist?
You can hate cancer but that doesn't mean you hate people with cancer, right?
No of course not, my question is if I'm an anti-theist or anti-religion.
Quoting wikipedia:
Quote:Antireligion is opposition to religion. Antireligion is distinct from atheism (the absence of a belief in deities) and antitheism (an opposition to belief in deities), although antireligionists may be atheists or antitheists. The term may be used to describe opposition to organized religion, or to describe a broader opposition to any form of belief in the supernatural or the divine.
So I guess there is a distinction between anti-religion and anti-theism
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you