re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

An anti-theist is a person who is opposed to religion (organised or not) because that person believes religion is a pernicious, dangerous, or destructive influence on society. Most anti-theists are not public figures, nor do they speak out (as they don’t want their house burned down or be fired from their jobs).

The term is dated by the Oxford English Dictionary as coming into use in 1833.

“Evangelical atheism” is also substituted with fundamentalist atheism or militant atheism, that is, having the same right to say your beliefs as everyone else, and are pejoratives only used by apologists.

Worth noting as well that simply saying “I don’t believe in the Christian god” in America gets you the “militant atheism” label.