In atheism terminology, anti-theism, or an ‘anti-theist’, refers to []
Quotes
The following are related quotes:
“I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.”
— Christopher Hitchens (2001), Letters to a Young Contrarian (Ѻ)
“I am more of an ‘anti-theist’, than an ‘atheist’. In other words, my view is not just that there is no reason to believe that there is a deity, and all the arguments that there is one, have all long since been ‘exploded’ by philosophers, astronomers, scientists, physicists, biologists, and so forth, mainly by philosophers though, but that it’s a ‘good’ thing that it’s not the case [that there is a god]. In other words, I do know some non-believers that ‘wish it was true’, who think it would be nice if there was a celestial dictatorship. I cannot want to make myself want there to be a celestial dictatorship. I think it would be the absolute definition of unfreedom, if there was an unchanging, undying, all-knowing father, who kept you under surveillance, before you were born, all your life, and after you were dead.”
— Christopher Hitchens (2009), “Interview Response” (to statement, by host Jian Ghomeshi, that Hitchens is a ‘renowned atheist’) (Ѻ), Q on CBC, YouTube, Sep 21
External links
● Antitheism – Wikipedia.
