(December 4, 2017 at 2:03 pm)Shell B Wrote: I imagine it has a lot to do with the fact that *some* theists do things like try to make homosexuals straight, deny their children healthcare, perform violent exorcisms on small children, rape small children in houses of worship, tell people they're going to hell, etc. ad nauseum. There are religions that either promote or allow these things, so people are against them. I can't call myself an anti-theist because I'm only actively against some religions. Others don't bother me.
It isn't a matter for me being for or against any religion. I am "anti theist" because ALL religions are going to have sub sects that dont agree, from the individual to the group level. There is not one umbrella label, worldwide, that does not have competing sub sects that clamor for attention from the powers above them.
I'd only agree that you cant force any religion out of existence. I am only "anti theist" in that the idea of religion itself, is a horrible way of conducting national or global diplomacy. It isn't that you can get rid of it, you cant. But it does not deserve the top priority when it comes to problem solving in a diverse species. It only deserves protection from a human rights standpoint, but not a blind worship demand.
I am against demands of submission, or claims that a hierarchy is a property deed owned by any one label. I'll always be for individual rights protected by government. But I am anti theist in that theism does not deserve blind value without question. I'll still treat an individual as such and take each claim and individual as a case by case basis.
