Antitheism

[Mister Agenda]

Can someone help me out here... Antitheist just means that I don't want theism to be true, correct? I've seen Hitchens say this a bunch of times (in videos) but I don't think people are on the same page as me.

An antitheist actively opposes theism. It may refer to being opposed to organized religion or it may be opposition to any belief in any deity. It's a little ambiguous, Excited Penguin seems to take it in the sense of being opposed to any religion, but not all religions are theistic, so anti-religionist would seem to be the more appropriate term for that. For instance I could see a religious humanist being an anti-theist in the sense of being actively opposed to people believing in any version of a God or gods while still technically being religious themselves without any contradiction.