10 Best Anti-Religion Documentaries of All Time

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Published on April 26, 2017 at 9:00 am
by VANA FILIPOVSKI

When I started doing research about best anti-religion documentaries of all time, I couldn’t begin the article without finding the answer to the question: What is anti-religion?

In order to understand anti-religion, first, we must know the definition of religion. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, religion could be explained as a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith, and also as the service and worship of God or the supernatural, to name few. So, logically we could conclude that anti-religion is everything opposite. A person who is anti-religious usually means that he or she is against all religions. However, if a Jew wants to negate the validity of, for example, Muslim faith, then they could say they are anti-religious towards Islam. Another two concepts that are connected to anti-religion, which could further help us in understanding it better, are heresy and apostasy. Heresy is adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma, whereas apostasy is an act of refusing to believe, follow or obey a religious faith. The main difference is that heresy is disagreeing with church rules but not denouncing from the set of beliefs, whereas apostasy is more linked to anti-religion because it renounces religion as such.

While I was browsing the internet, I noticed many questions about whether there is a connection between atheism and anti-religion, are they the same thing and if not what are the differences? Well, let’s try to answer one by one.

Atheism is a philosophical position characterized by disbelief in the existence of God or any Gods. Atheists acknowledge scientific proofs as the basis of their beliefs. Moreover, they consider religion as a primitive way of thinking that will be omitted in the end. As a result of the complexity of atheism as a concept, there are many kinds of it. There are agnostic atheists, humanists, antitheists and many more. Some of them could be even found friendly to religion. In order to answer the last question from above and make things clearer, I would just briefly compare atheism with anti-religion. If one person is anti-religious, it doesn’t exclude that they have faith, it just means they are opposed to the practice of religion. In contrast, atheists don’t analyze if the religion is good or bad, they just don’t believe in the existence of higher power, including God.

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