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How anti-theist are you? Not only am I an unapologetic atheist, but I am an anti-theist. Sure, I live in the real world and I have friends and relatives who are believers, but I do take many opportunities to educate others as to the horrors of religion and its horrific crimes. Human rights are threatened all over this planet because of religion and people are being tortured and murdered because of it. We are now living in a climate where it is OK to discriminate and call it freedom of religion. IN the USA, you can believe in human sacrifice, but you can't practice it.

daddy4pugs 7 Oct 22
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I'm 3rd (possibly 4th) generation Atheist, but was able to handle religion in general until a few years ago, when i lost my ability to tolerate it in any way. Sadly, my kids have picked up on this, and it's made things like holidays much more boring (we're not just anti-theist, but anti-anything with religious undertones/overtones, including Santa (so nobody wanted any kinds of decorations/etc), Thanksgiving ("who are we thanking, anyway?" ), etc.
Nobody said life as a skeptic was fun, but none of us are comfortable any other way.

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I dream of a world without religion, and a world without smokers. I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime, but with luck eventually my descendants will.

Smokers can be a religion all by themselves. They will accuse non smokers of this, but we know that addicts always make excuses for their addictions and they expect the rest of us to go along with their addiction, no matter how if effects us. Remember the days when the tobacco companies tried to convince people that second hand smoke was not bad? Yeah, because the poisons are going into the smoker and could not possibly be coming out the other end. If I believe that, then they should sell me a bridge with Jesus living under it.

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I've become very anti-theist simply due to the fact that the moment you display your disbelief in god and/or magical thinking, others are ready to rip your throat out w/their illogical and supremely ignorant indoctrinated notions. I wish I could say that I knew other atheists here other than my husband, but it turns out that though the quality of life and weather in Florida is better, the people are burnt out from the sun. I would love to start a group where like-minded people get together in person and just talk about what they deal with as an atheist, and also talk about how we can organize, and stop the death-roll of religion in our politics.

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Most of them are harmless despite their god's wishes. The only way to pull the countries' figurative head from the rectum would be to teach all children, no exceptions for home schooling, a class in school about religion. There need to cover all religions, past and present. Then, bring back those corny 80's ads for the war on drugs and replace religion. "This is your brain, this your brains on religion." One would hope, eventually reality and the wisdom obtained from it's knowledge would replace the conventional wisdom of god did it.

The problem is that local school boards would never allow it. It has to be a federal curriculum and enforced nationwide without exception.

It would only work if it were standardized and taught by the non-religious which wouldn't work with our so-called equal opportunity act.

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Im tolerant. In no way do i bend to their beliefs but I feel everyone has the right to believe what they want n its not my place to butt in. I'm respectful in that if its a religious situation that demamds participation, I leave. If I am to respect the religious, I demand respect back. If they can't be respectful, I'm done with them altogether. Tolerance and respect are my biggest rules to live in peace. I don't have energy to argue with every christian or Muslim i pass.

Where I disagree (for me) is that if I can take the opportunity to answer their dangerous ideas I will. I have enough respect to recognize their right to believe; it's unfortunate that they do return that right to me. They don't even want me to have the right to keep a job or an apartment. No, I didn't say all believers, but enough to make a negative difference.

Hey pugs, I've come to realize a lot of atheists feel like you do. It comes back to energy. I don't have or care to exert it to people that aren't willing to listen n that's the majority. Sadly religion has overtaken the majority of life n it sucks for us atheists but besides being just as big of a-holes back and lowering to their level, what can we do?

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On YouTube, I am known as a militant anti-theist. I give no quarter to people that think they are superior and condemn others based on a mythical being that empowers them to bigotry and hate. Unfortunately, newly self-proclaimed atheist carry their bigotry along with them into their new reality. It is a kind of sinister opposite mindset and have anger issues directed at their past social belief structures. They turn their activism towards social engineering society. They try to become the great equalizers. You know them as SJW's and liberal regressives'. They tend to side with self-loathing cucks in the hopes of undoing the past. The new religion is social engineering. What is going on in Europe right now is a classic example of how a few of these individuals empower the cultural degradation of western values. Islamic cultural enrichment is coming to a town near you.

The Christian fundamentalist are anti Muslim because they want to protect their place of power in our society and they wish to impose their own sharia law. Just because these monsters are attacking a religious minority group in our country, doesn't mean that we atheists should be defending the Muslim monsters who are just as must as fundamentalist as the Christians. The agenda of both groups is to establish a religious nation with their own brand of sharia law. We will be dead no matter who is in control. It frightens me that so many liberals/progressives (and I am one) are feeding the enemies of freedom and human rights. I am an equal opportunity hater. Yes, apologists, I am a hater. I hate hunger, over population, abuse of LGBT people, destroying our planet, so yes I am a hater and I hate the worst idea to ever infect our species, religion. And no, hate is not destroying me, it motivates me to make a difference.

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Religion, for all it's faults, has done great things for civilization. It has inspired great thought and great art for example.

Theists are like everyone else. Some are fine people and some are jerks.

You sound like Orange Nazi Trump, "Some are fine people." Of course there are good and decent people who are believers, but they perpetuate the idea that those who do bad things in the name of religion, are not the "true" Christian or Muslim, or whatever. The fact is that all the filth of torture and murder is in the buybull and the Koran. It is not that extremists have corrupted their religion, it's that moderates have have sanitized it.

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A doctor told me I can't treat you unless you admit that you have the affliction you want to be treated for. So I followed that with you can't change unless you admit that you need to change. In addition, you can't stump with believers because they haven't admitted to themselves that it could all be a horrible lie. So I don't evangelize my beliefs because there's no one who will admit they want to hear them. I've always been a black sheep who walked his own path and been in a minority one way another where ever I go.

SamL Level 7 Oct 22, 2017
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I'm pretty militant about. I used to not be. I let people do whatever. But then my family started getting on my nerves: "Hey, just go - just walk inside the church." It's all fun and games until someone spills the holy water of hypocrisy... or something. I was cool with their little jokes, but they didn't like mine in return. A collection of other shit happened. And now I make it a point to shut down any religious validation in my immediate presence.
For instance, my sister and her boyfriend say "On god?" when mining for honesty from each other. One will say something like, "There's a sale on chocolate at the liquor store," and the other will respond, "On gah?!" They say it really fast. If I'm within spitting distance I'll say something like, "Jokes on you, god don't exist," or, "I bet you won't put that on Cthulhu, though. They usually laugh.
But my extended family, namely my uncles, they get a different treatment: "First you have to prove the existence of your god, and then you can use your mouth." If I'm feeling especially gladiatorial that day.
If someone hands me a bible I'll say, "Thanks, I've been meaning to read a good fairy tale. I heard this one has a huge, and sometimes ugly, fanbase, like anime."
Aside from that, I don't do much to "educate" people.

Yeah, isn't it "funny" that when the jokes hit upon their doubts, they begin to have a problem with it.

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"How anti-theist are you?"

A lot but not entirely.

"Not only am I an unapologetic atheist, but I am an anti-theist."

I actually prefer not to call myself an atheist not because I'm not one but because so few people (some of which are atheists!) understand what the word actually means so why bother? There are a lot of things I don't believe in too like mermaids & the Loch Ness Monster but I see no need for a special term about finding them unbelievable either so why would I need a special word to identify me as not believing god claims either? I can think of one or two things I like about religion I cannot find elsewhere but that's not saying a lot.

"Sure, I live in the real world and I have friends and relatives who are believers, but I do take many opportunities to educate others as to the horrors of religion and its horrific crimes."

Yeah I try to too. Like them I once thought that religion wasn't out & out evil & I wouldn't go quite that far even now because I don't believe that evil actually exists either BUT now I've learnt what is actually in the Buy Bull I'm far less ignorant about all the toxic stuff in it which you tend not to hear about at school or even in church unless you happen to attend the Westborough Baptist Church perhaps! L.O.L.

"Human rights are threatened all over this planet because of religion and people are being tortured and murdered because of it."

Sure but it's actually 'faith' more than anything that bothers me & even atheists can have faith in certain things sometimes (but not "atheism" because contrary to popular belief atheism isn't a belief at all).

"We are now living in a climate where it is OK to discriminate and call it freedom of religion. IN the USA, you can believe in human sacrifice, but you can't practice it."

That's no fun! Let's start a campaign: 'Atheists For Human Sacrifice' L.O.L!

Paul Level 5 Oct 22, 2017

Yes Paul, human sacrifice should be our religion. After all, who are they to doubt our beliefs on our journey to heaven? Now, where to find a virgin.

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Yes, totally atheist and anti-theist. I tend to take the strident militant unapologetic atheist stance as I take the same position as John Maynard Keynes “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” So a strong opposition is needed for real change therefore moderates are wanted but only needed once the real change has already happened.

Religious ideas are ingrained in our society and in our psyches. It can take some people years to get over the mindset and the guilt of religion.

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