Let’s Stop Calling New Atheism, “Atheism,” and Start Calling it What it is: Anti-Theism

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2. The difference is

if you presented Dawkins, Harris or Hitchens with proof that there was a God, they would change their minds. Whereas theists are constantly presented with evidence that there is no God but continue to assert that there is one.

All Dawkins has ever said is that presenting religious dogma as a certainty is false and that it is irresponsible to indoctrinate children. None of them have ever claimed to have a monopoly on the truth.

That said, I am both an atheist and an anti-theist. How can you not be when you look at the amount of harm that religious dogma has done and continues to do in our world?

Dawkins' great quote is "The problem with religion is that it teaches people to be content with not understanding the world." I am against anything that shuts down the testing and questioning process and says "Just believe this" or "We can never know". It's not a bad thing to be intolerant of those who turn ignorance into a virtue.