Antitheism

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Miss Simone, I was wondering: how do you feel about antitheism? See, I like to think of myself as being a pretty dang mellow person, spiritually speaking: I have many friends of many different religious or nonreligious backgrounds and beliefs, and we support each other in our right to be theistic or nontheistic however we want. But I have one friend who constantly espouses that all religions are poisonous, and any benefit they have could be derived without them, but their problems are unique.
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I am both a skeptic and an atheist myself, and I think everyone’s entitled to their opinions.

But being either or both of those things is no guarantee that you are a decent human being with empathy and compassion. Neither of those things comes with a license to treat people who believe differently like shit.

The atheism and skeptical movements are rife through with privilege all the way up to the top writers in both groups.  There is a common tendency for them to fail utterly and lapse into xenophobia, misogyny, racism, privilege denial and lots, lots more. 

We are entitled to our opinions. I don’t think we’re entitled to be assholes.