Why should they? Why can't we accept that people can be pro or anti sets of ideas and both views can be discussed?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It should be discussed but anti-theism should not be confused with atheism, just like with Marxism and socialism.
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Replying to @DeMondige @HPluckrose
Atheists, humanists, anti-theists and agnostics live all in the same house but each should have separate rooms.
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Replying to @DeMondige @HPluckrose
Now it is one chaotic mess where nobody knows what the labels mean and the most radical determines the reputation of all.
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Replying to @DeMondige
So lets avoid labels and tribalism? Labels should serve a descriptive purpose when relevant. Not an identity.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
What kind of description does religious people have if you present yourself as atheist? The Dawkins one of course.
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Replying to @DeMondige
I'm a great fan of Dawkins tho I don't always agree with him. Can you disagree & not put people in an enemy camp?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Of course, but stating that Dawkins is not just an atheist but more correctly an anti-theist doesn't make him an enemy.
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Replying to @DeMondige
There's no more correctly. I am an atheist and also a woman and a historian and a liberal and a mother.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Atheist is unrelated to woman, that is clear. But people do relate atheism with "New Atheism", humanism and agnostic.
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Yes. Atheists vary because its not a belief system. I think I'll leave it here. This is bewildering. Just do you.
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