Anti-Theism

[The Grand Nudger]

I think it goes further than merely not being in agreement with the ideology.  I think of it as being in favor of dissuading those who do hold to that ideology away from doing so.  Do we agree on that?  

You think we go door to door or something? 

Don't get me wrong, if the day should come when no one anywhere worshiped literal gods, no one would be happier than I.  But I think being an anti-theist obliges me to speak out against it at every opportunity or to work toward that day in some other manner.

Nope.

When it comes to exercising persuasion for the cause, I'm content to leave it to adults to decide for themselves.

So am I...I'm not exactly putting anyone's thumbs in screws....that's the believers style.

That is, of course, unless they want to discuss it or, gawd help them, want to persuade me to their ideology - but even then, only so long as scripture is left out.  Nothing is worth sitting through that crap.

It's useful for making the case regarding anti-theism.  I think that a person who doesn't have time for scripture probably -isn't- going to "get" anti-theism.  OTOH, they'll constantly find themselves in the position of being told some horrid thing that the faithful are supposed to believe and thinking to themselves "No, surely not, surely they don't believe in that, do they?"..and no sooner will they ask than some believer will come along to tell them that they do, ofc...and ask them why they haven't read magic book.    

-and that's when an anti-theist cocks their head to the side, gives you the wide eyeballs and whispers -"I told you these fuckers were crazy." Anti-theism is nothing more or less than the position that theistic ideology is bad for people.