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Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
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RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
(January 16, 2015 at 8:12 am)tantric Wrote: and antitheism, which is basically an antipathy towards god and religions, without the logic? Is it appropriate or useful to hate religion?

Quote:Antitheism (sometimes anti-theism) is active opposition to theism. The term has had a range of applications; in secular contexts, it typically refers to direct opposition to organized religion or to the belief in any deity, while in a theistic context, it sometimes refers to opposition to a specific god or gods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitheism

As an anti-theist I am still as logical as any atheist, just with more passion toward the dislike of religion than some or most atheists. It is quite appropriate and useful to dislike, even hate, religion for the simple reason that religion continues to cause strife and division in this world as it pretends to be the salvation of humanity with its falsehoods.

(January 16, 2015 at 8:12 am)tantric Wrote: So, tell me - can I be a part of this forum given that I strongly dislike anti-theism?

Yes, but you are not likely to care for my way of posting or Min's.
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#12
RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
To the OP, frankly, I'm tired of walking on egg shells around dim wits who believe in invisible sky-daddies and act like they are something special because of it. They're special all right....just not in the way they think.

Fuck 'em. I'm tired of their shit.
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#13
RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
My first question would be, how could you not hate religion?

Do you read the news? At all? Ever?



Why would think that anti-theists would not base their position on logic? Anti-theists are also atheists.

I reached my atheism by the correct application of skepticism applied to the god claim. I reached my anti-theism by paying attention to the global situation.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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#14
RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
Anti-theism is God's gift to atheism.
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#15
RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
I will go a step further with my anti-theism.

My position is that, even if any of the gods that appear in any religious texts and are believed in by humanity actually did exist, I'd still be in opposition to them.

There is not a single god that I know of that deserves worship.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
(January 16, 2015 at 3:50 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: There is not a single god that I know of that deserves worship.

Yes, all of them I know of, are just proxies for all that is bad in humanity - angry, vain, jealous, petty, evil. Sounds like Yahweh to a tee.
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RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
(January 16, 2015 at 8:12 am)tantric Wrote: The anti-religion thing, where atheists mock and deride religions and religious people, reminds me very much of one facet of the behavior of church-people that I rejected as a youth.

There are instances when you can either cry out in pain or mock what you just heard to create some comic relieve. In my case it's mostly when someone presents themselves to be proudly and willfully ignorant of the world surrounding us and what science tought us about this world.

But I don't need a label to do so. Although I'm mostly ignorant about natural sciences, I put about a billion times more stock in it's findings than I do in the words of ancient desert dweller, who thought the earth was flat and who, in their vast majority, couldn't even read or write.
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#18
RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
You bet, I bugger myself in bewilderment at the fact that what people think they are worshipping in xianity is a blatant, unashamedly evil being, even when writing about itself. I don't think I could write a more convincing evil character, nor can I think of any hideous act of venom he has not already done. It's all right there in their hands, but they still kiss his ass. The only logical explanations for that are fear or denial.

I doubt Allah is worse, but probably not much better. I've read less about him, but I am aware of some of the atrocities. Constant hell threats for everyone who doesn't worship him seems his thing.
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#19
RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
He's evil all right, but if it were a character in a novel I'd criticise it for being too over the top to be believable.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#20
RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
(January 16, 2015 at 4:21 pm)Alex K Wrote: He's evil all right, but if it were a character in a novel I'd criticise it for being too over the top to be believable.


Okay, about god being evil, way back when while I was exploring mythopoesis as an art form, I wrote a little story meant to be a creation myth for vegetarians and mixed-race folks. I don't believe it to be true in anyway, except perhaps symbolically, but the part about God and Death might amuse y'all. Here it is - the history of the Ohsaycanyousea people.
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