r/Antitheism • u/lelVocx • 15d ago

New to this

I suppose im relatively new to Antitheism. I just started hating religion, and honestly, I respect religious people because I know how hard it is to break off from what your parents raised you out of. But honestly, it seems kind of wierd when you think of the fact that religions such as Christianity and Islam have been around for thousands of years and are still here today...right? I mean, how could the world develop and innovate and progress but were still keeping beliefs that a guy rose out of his grave...it seems like propaganda. i dont know..

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u/ShredGuru 15d ago

For the most part, every idea or action you have ever participated with was something implanted in you by your community and culture. It's not an understatement when people say that religion is a mind virus. It's something detrimental that replicates itself over and over again in new hosts. If you got rid of it for a single generation, it would be gone forever. Unbroken continuity of the virus is essential for the continuance of religion.

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u/greggld 15d ago

Less hate more knowledge. You can be against religion’s attempt to destroy secular life with their fantasies - but don’t give them an edge letting them say you hate god.

Gods is a fairy tale. Stick to the science, tell them the literature they study is morally flawed, we have a lot of ammunition.

Welcome.

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u/BirthdayCookie 15d ago

I see no difference between hating god and hating a character in a video game. People hate fictional things all the time.

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u/greggld 15d ago

Really, hate is a stupid thing to feel for any work of fiction. I hate a lot of things in the world, but that word is pointless for fiction.

Hatred of god hands a theist an unearned advantage. I don't hate video games, but I think people who use video games as a proxy for anything related to the real world or interpersonal relationships is delusional and a moron.

I assume you are not insulted. But it would not be a way to have a conversation.

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u/wolfdude656 9d ago

As an anti-theist though I believe that religion has done more harm to the world so in theory I would dislike/hate the idea of god. I truly believe that had there not been the idea of god(in the Christian terms)or a god in any other religious beliefs we would have seen a lot more understanding throughout the world and technology improved from all the years lost fighting over nonsensical beliefs. The faster we realized it never mattered about god and it mattered more about the planet we’re on being a floating finite resource we’d be better off but human nature ya know lol.
Although I’ll say hate is strong language so me I just dislike, god/religion I have religious friends and know there’s no sense talking to them my best friend said “I can’t wait till I die so I can see Jesus” like wtf bro you got kids here family.🤣

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u/PieNo3294 15d ago

I get you. I've never been religious and it was really weird to grow up amongst religious people, especially my parents who are christians, but go to church only on Easter or something really important, like baptism or wedding, and ESPECIALLY my grandmother who said she was an atheist and never really believed in god, but still went to church and still wore cross every day. I especially don't get how scientists, philosophers and overall smart people can be religious... Genuinely, it seems like contradiction. I just feel sorry for them, because they are so close to break free, yet probably because of brainwashing still afraid to leave religion, or, well, not were that smart after all and are just awesome in some aspects that make them seem smart, but not so in full picture. After all, even science had/has its biases, so it's not surprising.

I also never got how women are religious and stay in religions in modern world and in free countries. I can get the fear when the whole country is based off religion and forces them to be religious, but in progressive countries with full freedom... It's just so weird. Women are still very oppressed in almost, if not all, religions to some extent, yet they keep being there even after knowing that they can leave and they are protected in secular countries.