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WCDT Strips 4316-4320 (27-31 July 2020)
Tova:
Yes. With the caveat that different people have narrower definitions of 'atheism'. But if you interpret atheism as simply 'lack of belief in a deity' (as I would), then antitheism is a subgroup of that.
Cornelius:
Maybe the antheism is more like the militant, proselytising atheism?
As for me personally, I'm happy to let everyone believe what they want - or not - as long as it doesn't harm anyone.
What does get on my nerves, however, is when people are pushing an antireligious discourse by twisting around history, and just perpetuating things that are, at best, misrepresentations, at worst, total fabrications. Religion, and all religions, have their bad sides - as bad as the people that make up a religion can get - but there's also good to be found.
When it comes to prayer, what is worse: telling someone in pain their beliefs are wrong, and their prayers useless, or letting them have this one source of comfort?
Sure, there are those who will go to another extreme, and refuse medical treatment, but let's face it, discounting their beliefs is not going to make them any more cooperative. Quite the contrary, in fact.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 03 Aug 2020, 00:29 ---Maybe the antheism is more like the militant, proselytising atheism?
As for me personally, I'm happy to let everyone believe what they want - or not - as long as it doesn't harm anyone.
--- End quote ---
I think that the militant, proselytising antitheist is a subset of antitheist. Also, I think that, in general, the reason that they are militant and proselytising is that they believe that religion does, in fact, do harm.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Tova on 03 Aug 2020, 01:11 ---
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 03 Aug 2020, 00:29 ---Maybe the antheism is more like the militant, proselytising atheism?
As for me personally, I'm happy to let everyone believe what they want - or not - as long as it doesn't harm anyone.
--- End quote ---
I think that the militant, proselytising antitheist is a subset of antitheist. Also, I think that, in general, the reason that they are militant and proselytising is that they believe that religion does, in fact, do harm.
--- End quote ---
I wonder how many of them came to that conclusion via a series of bad experiences or a few particularly bad experiences with religious (or self-professed) religious types?
I can certainly see victims of warped variations of Christianity (e.g. the white supremacy brand) and child victims of clergy coming to that conclusion.
Thrillho:
I suspect it is partly that and partly confirmation bias even down to how you seek shit out.
Spoiler for content warning of sexual abuse. I'm using the extreme example here because it's one of the quickest anti-Catholic go-tos.
(click to show/hide)If you think lots of Catholic priests molest kids, you might look up 'what percentage of priests molest kids.'
Now assuming for the sake of this argument that you find an accurate figure, of (blank)%... are you going to compare it to how many people in the average population would qualify as being a child molester also in order to know whether the occurrence is higher among priests? Are you going to look up, say, how so many people who commit molestation end up becoming priests, rather than 'why priests molest'?
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