Hey Anti-Theists! Prove Your Claim

[Mister Agenda]

There's nothing sick or malicious about a botfly, unless it was intentionally created as such. Why would anyone worship a being that -created- a botfly? Further, who would wish for there to be such a being?

That, my friend, is anti-theism.

Seems awfully close to maltheism (God is not nice...at all). An antitheist would think theistic beliefs are undesireable even if they're superficially fluffy and sweet. And the botfly doesn't seem to be an argument against believing in the God of deism, who really isn't necessarily responsible for exactly how everything turns out, except in broad strokes.

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I get the sense that North American atheism is more often than not a reaction to Evangelicals. If you look at some of the anti-Christian posts, you will nearly always see a fundamentalist literal interpretation presented as the only option. All the talk about religion being intrinsically bad appear to follow from some negative personal experience with religion....really just rationalizations.

Atheism isn't a reaction to Evangelicals, with the exception of the excesses of Evangelical fundamentalism having a tendency to drive their children away from it when they're old enough to flee, sometimes all the way to atheism; but Evangelicals give atheist secularists and anti-theists a lot to which to react.

It's a fair cop that an Evangelical minister declaring Ebola is what we need to take out the gays and atheists will get more attention in the news than a UCC minister calling for equal treatment of LGBTQ individuals will.