Posted: Mar 28, 2019 10:07 am
Ironclad wrote:This 'militant' anti theist description and sentiment I'm reading here lately, as well as making me a tad sad - so many of you appear to have reversed your position since this forum's inception - is making me pretty annoyed, an I am worried for some of you. I've made little effort to hide my own anti theism; I would see theism gone, I want faith privilege removed (as did most here once) and I would blanket-ban all public funded symbols of religion and have them removed from view; and religious education in schools stopped. However, this is my wish only. I cannot get away with being active or vocal in public, religion is protected. The best I can do is to lobby. There is no 'militant' anti theism.
What has happened to you guys?
That is a very broad brush you are using. In this country what you are complaining about does not exist and we are not the only one. There is no faith privilege or public funded symbols. At any remembrance or other public celebrations you will never see men in frocks like you do in the UK. We dont have religion in schools. Religion is not protected. We have no need of militant anti-theists. The last thing we need. We achieve far more with syrup than with vinegar.
Theism in all its forms is dying. No need to rush it. It will die by itself including islam.