They're anti theist

And I don't like that

Constitutionalism is meaningless to me when it revolves entirely around the whims of federal judges.

Atheist was a term for pegans back then, but non-believers were then lumped in it.

I like Hitchens and Dawkins and I agree with them a lot

So I am like eh.. whatever, I will embrace the name.

But they're wrong when they claim religion can only do harm

Every human and type of ideology can cause harm.

An Atheist is someone like Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson

To what degree the harm is caused depends on the person who follows that ideology.

Or Jonathan Haidt

It depends on the people who are a part of that ideology or religion.

An anti theist is Matt Dilahunty

I don't believe in God/gods so I call myself atheist because it is descriptive of that. Doesn't really bother me if there are assholes or idiots who use the same title.

That is why people seem to misunderstand us Atheists.

They try to think of us as a collective.

When we are individuals.

Think of it this way, imagine the KKK call themselves feminists

And you call yourself a feminist

When you say you're a feminist, you're automatically lumped in with the KKK

And the person you're talking to, goes immediately on the offensive

I tell people I am a Atheist, they automatically think I am a Liberal left.

I am like woah woah, I am a independent.

I think a lot of younger and some older atheists are super edgy because they feel betrayed by the upbringing, and the ones who got over it or never felt that way just don't feel the need to bring it up much.

I don't give a crap for the left, hell I don't want to be associated with them.

I just want them to call themselves anti thesists and not pollute the term atheist

Because I want to be an atheist. I want to study and analyse religions

I believe it can do a ton of good

To me... religion is just a primitive way of understanding the world. Best way to describe it... a lot of unknowns were associated to deities.

That's how I see it as well for the most part.

And that's what I disagree with.

The more we learn about the world around us, the more we kill off these so called deities.

Think about it.

More than that, though

I think philosophy is at odds with nature.

Let's take the Abrahamic story

Why is god such a hypocrite?

The fact that we can have a civil discussion and not rip each other's throats out

And why have these stories stayed the same for thousands of years?

That's not natural, but I'd consider it as good.

Atleast that element of it