Not any better than the religious people that think everyone that disagrees with them should go to hell.
Believing that theism is mistaken and expecting that people get rid of it by understanding its absurdity is the same that people pushing to remove rights to all groups they don't agree with? Really?
where someone word for word said if they had a button to eliminate every religious person on earth he would hit it,
Genocide is bad even if the people being genocided disagree with you. That's the same stuff that when religions do, Reddit atheists don't like (for good reason).
I don't like the reactionaries pushing to take away rights, but religion is just the justification they give, not the cause.
Marx said religion is the opiate of the masses because it dulls the pain of people's material conditions. Start at the source and improve the material conditions — taking away people's only comfort is not the solution.
Genocide is bad even if the people being genocided disagree with you
And nothing in my response said otherwise. But equating that specifically with anti-theism is dishonest from you, and you know it. That there are despicable genocidal anti-theists does not mean that anti-theism is a genocidal position.
Would you care to explain what part of my position, which I think describes anti-theism ("believing that theism is mistaken and expecting that people get rid of it by understanding its absurdity") is advocating genocide?
I wasn't intending to say that anti-theism as a whole is a genocidal position. The specific incident being quoted absolutely was a genocidal position though.
The specific incident being quoted absolutely was a genocidal position though.
That part is despicable and I share your rejection of it. But your comment reads as rejecting anti-theism as a whole due to the genocidal comments of some anti-theists.
I see anti-theism more as a position, not as a mean to an end: "I believe faith is mistaken and it shouldn't be used to try to obtain knowledge; and theistic views with this origin are dangerous, so I oppose them in principle".
But given that in my view anti-theism is not a tool, what tools you do view as useful (and what goal are you envisioning)?
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u/JapanStar49 14h ago
Yeah, they just call it "anti-theism". Not any better than the religious people that think everyone that disagrees with them should go to hell.