Why I’m An Anti-Theist

Michael Trigg
4 min readFeb 10, 2021

No, not an atheist, an anti-theist.

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According to the Oxford Dictionary: atheism is the theory or belief that God does not exist. The word comes (in the late 16th century, via French) from Greek atheos, from a- ‘without’ + theos ‘god’.

Whereas an anti-theist is: “One opposed to belief in the existence of a god”. … Anti-theism has been adopted as a label by those who regard theism as dangerous

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Michael Trigg

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