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11. Indeed. Many people think anti-theists hate religious people.
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 08:57 AM
Mar 2016

Some theists and apologists deliberately perpetuate that stereotype because it allows them to portray themselves as victims.

I like Rational Wiki's definition:

Antitheism, also known pejoratively as "militant atheism" (despite having nothing to do with militancy) is the belief that theism and religion are harmful to society and people, and that even if theistic beliefs were true, they would be undesirable. Antitheism, which is often characterized as outspoken opposition to theism and religion, asserts that religious and especially theistic beliefs are harmful and should be discarded in favor of humanism, rationalism, science and other alternatives.

Antitheistic positions are often erroneously confused for (or strawmanned into) rallying for various persecutory conspiracies against the faithful, including "seeking out and destroying all religion", "wanting to make faith illegal", "forcing the religion of atheism onto everyone" (a suggestion that is not even wrong), and numerous other unfounded fears from the faithful and their apologists.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Antitheism

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