RE: Anti-theism and anti-religion
July 22, 2014 at 8:45 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2014 at 8:48 am by Dystopia.)
Quote:Could you share with us how you think you know personal gods don't exist?
Mason, I can prove religions wrong by pointing out either lack of evidence for scriptures and many holy characters or I could show the contradictory characteristics in those gods. I can't prove by 100%, but I'm almost 100% certain... As for a higher force existing, the deistic type or another spiritual type of superior being, I can't prove it wrong so I'm an agnostic. Satisfied?
(July 22, 2014 at 12:17 am)Pickup_shonuff 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?
I don't think so. Then again, they're basically two peas in the same pod.
I think anti-theism and anti-religion basically amount to anti-authoritarianism, anti-ignorance, and anti-indoctrination.
Sure, but according to wikipedia anti-religion and anti-theism are two different positions. Being an anti-theist will most likely make someone anti-religious by a matter of coherence, but being anti-religion doesn't necessarily make me an anti-theist, I'm not against the god idea per se (but I disagree with it) but against people following organized religion.
(July 21, 2014 at 11:59 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I'm not anti god, or anti religion. But I am anti some gods and some religions. Islam, particularly fundimentalist Islam, I'm against. Many forms of Christianity especially fundamentalist Christianity I'm against. Everything having to do with caste in Hinduism, I'm against. The god of the OT, I'm against or would be if such a monster existed.Jenny I too believe in freedom of religion (as a law student, I reckon it's importance), I'd never go against it, that doesn't mean I can't have a position against certain institutions
Buddhists and Jains may be wrong, but I don't much care.
I believe in freedom of religion. I believe in freedom of religious practice only to the extent it is moral with regard to those outside of the particular religion.
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