RE: Hey Anti-Theists! Prove Your Claim
August 15, 2014 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2014 at 6:41 pm by Ben Davis.)
(August 15, 2014 at 2:20 pm)Blackout Wrote: That's not anti-theism... That's Gnostic/Strong atheism, the belief no gods exist. Anti-theism is the opposition to belief/god concept and not the assertion that god can't exist. I'm mostly an agnostic atheist and I'm an anti-theist.You're focussing on only one definition of anti-theism here, the one which represents your position but there's another definition which is missing from your other 3 (earlier in the thread). Broadly and literally, the term represents any position which opposes a theistic proposition; either the religion/organisation and/or the deity. Stating 'there is no <insert deity>' is an anti-theistic position. The term 'gnostic atheist' is used to mean the same thing although it's a slight misuse: it literally means 'knowledge of an absence of theism' (i.e. having knowledge that one's an atheist). That's why I prefer the term 'anti-theist' when I state a claim in the non-existence of a deity. That's just my personal choice. As I said before, common use definitions of 'gnostic atheist' mean the same thing.
Quote:My point was to assert that believing no gods exist doesn't correlate with anti-theism, but with gnostic atheismTo keep being pedantic, it correlates more literally with anti-theism than with gnostic atheism
Sum ergo sum