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'''Antireligion''' is opposition to [[:en:religion]] of any kind.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anti-religion|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-religion|website=Merriam-Webster Dictionary|publisher=Merriam-Webster Online|archivedate=26 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Antireligion|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/antireligion|website=Collins Dictionary|publisher=Collins Dictionary Online|archivedate=26 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Bullivant|first1=Stephen|last2=Lee|first2=Lois|title=A Dictionary of Atheism|date=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780191816819}}</ref> The term has been used to describe opposition to [[:en:organized religion]], [[:en:religious ritual|religious practices]] or [[:en:religious institutions]]. This term has also been used to describe opposition to specific forms of supernatural worship or practice, whether organized [[:en:spiritual but not religious|or not]]. Opposition to religion also goes beyond the [[:en:Misotheism|misotheistic]] spectrum. As such it is distinct from deity-specific positions such as [[:en:atheism]] (the absence of a belief in deities) and [[:en:antitheism]] (an opposition to belief in deities), although "antireligionists", a neologism as of 2017, sfaik, may also be atheists or antitheists. | '''Antireligion''' is the opposite of [[:en:Omnism]], it is opposition to [[:en:religion]] of any kind and is more fundamental in its opposition than [[:en:Anti-clericalism]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Anti-religion|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-religion|website=Merriam-Webster Dictionary|publisher=Merriam-Webster Online|archivedate=26 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Antireligion|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/antireligion|website=Collins Dictionary|publisher=Collins Dictionary Online|archivedate=26 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Bullivant|first1=Stephen|last2=Lee|first2=Lois|title=A Dictionary of Atheism|date=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780191816819}}</ref> The term has been used to describe opposition to [[:en:organized religion]], [[:en:religious ritual|religious practices]] or [[:en:religious institutions]]. This term has also been used to describe opposition to specific forms of supernatural worship or practice, whether organized [[:en:spiritual but not religious|or not]]. Opposition to religion also goes beyond the [[:en:Misotheism|misotheistic]] spectrum. As such it is distinct from deity-specific positions such as [[:en:atheism]] (the absence of a belief in deities) and [[:en:antitheism]] (an opposition to belief in deities), although "antireligionists", a neologism as of 2017, sfaik, may also be atheists or antitheists. | ||
</td></tr></table> | <blockquote style="position: relative;left: -50px;width:900px;">{{Cquote|Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. }}<div align=right>—confabulated by the internet as a quote of [[:en:Mark Twain|Twain]] with an actual quote to same effect from [[:en:Voltaire|Voltaire]] <ref>"Les divinations, les augures, étaient des espèces d’oracles, et sont, je crois, d’une plus haute antiquité ; car il fallait bien des cérémonies, bien du temps pour achalander un oracle divin qui ne pouvait se passer de temple et de prêtres ; et rien n’était plus aisé que de dire la bonne aventure dans les carrefours. Cet art se subdivisa en mille façons ; on prédit par le vol des oiseaux, par le foie des moutons, par les plis formés dans la paume de la main, par des cercles tracés sur la terre, par l’eau, par le feu, par des petits cailloux, par des baguettes, par tout ce qu’on imagina, et souvent même par un pur enthousiasme qui tenait lieu de toutes les règles. Mais qui fut celui qui inventa cet art ? ce fut le premier fripon qui rencontra un imbécile." Complete Works, Garnier, Tome 11 p. 88</ref></div> | ||
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<div align=right>—attributed to [[:en:Seneca the Younger|Seneca]] with essentially same actual sentence in [[:en:Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]], Vol. I, <span class=plainlinks style="color: lime;">[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25717/25717-h/25717-h.htm#chap02.1 Ch. 2, § I ¶ 1]</span> <ref>As you might expect since Atheism doesn't really appear fully formed in the West until the late 18th century with d'Holbach.</ref></div> | |||
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<tr><td></td><td>These faux quotes are telling of the West in contrast to its being the origin of modern science and especially telling of the part of the planet where it did and ostensibly no longer does culturally dominate. Even those pushing one absurdly claim that it is not a religion<ref>see Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus. the Movie and meme. The title "I hate religion" by the prosperity gospel televangelist [[:en:Creflo Dollar]] is exemplary of this.</ref>. Fortunately both in some societies and layers (e.g. scientific class) of the West and the societies of East Asia, this is no longer the case, these parts of humanity have risen above primitive stories as fundamental belief, can get that it is wrong to hold such as true and worse to try to push them on others. Scientific rationality at the species level is the destiny of Man generally but at this writing religion is still a thing in most places morally compelling polemic. | |||
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= <span style="color: navy;">Thesis</span> = | = <span style="color: navy;">Thesis</span> = | ||
This § which was first written as a response on the enwiki article talk page where an [[:en:The_Antichrist_(book)#Decree_against_Christianity|ancestral argument]] by Nietzsche was noted, is the basis of the next §. | This § which was first written as a response on the enwiki article talk page where an [[:en:The_Antichrist_(book)#Decree_against_Christianity|ancestral argument]] by Nietzsche was noted, is the basis of the next §. | ||
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== <span style="color: navy;">Definition</span> == | == <span style="color: navy;">Definition</span> == | ||
A religion is a culturally dependent belief system. | A religion is a culturally dependent belief system. | ||
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Science/Reason is the one belief system that can produce objective truth about the real world. | Science/Reason is the one belief system that can produce objective truth about the real world. | ||
== <span style="color: navy;">Corollary</span> == | == <span style="color: navy;">Corollary</span> == | ||
Science is not culturally dependent, it is valid for all real beings everywhere and at all times. | Science<ref>Obviously, here "science" means real culture independent knowledge, which presumes whatever body of knowledge is not produced by a single culture or species.</ref> is not culturally dependent, it is valid for all real beings everywhere and at all times. | ||
== <span style="color: navy;">Conclusion</span> == | == <span style="color: navy;">Conclusion</span> == | ||
A religion until it becomes something other than a belief system is a false one that may be prevalent in primitive cultures that have not yet achieved | A religion until it becomes something other than a belief system is a false one that may be prevalent in primitive cultures that have not yet achieved material rationality. | ||
== <span style="color: navy;">Imperative</span> == | == <span style="color: navy;">Imperative</span> == | ||
Since having a false fundamental belief system is bad in a way virtually nothing else can be, a moral/ethical individual will be anti-religious to the extent that they will seek the earliest possible resolution of any religion still posing as a system of objective belief into a vessel of cultural heritage. | Since having a false fundamental belief system is bad in a way virtually nothing else in an otherwise healthy thinking organism can be, a moral/ethical individual will be anti-religious to the extent that they will seek the earliest possible resolution of any religion still posing as a system of objective belief into a vessel of cultural heritage. | ||
=<div align=right><span style="text-align: right; color: navy;">As a Positive Substantive</span></div>= | =<div align=right><span style="text-align: right; color: navy;">As a Positive Substantive</span></div>= | ||
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"Antireligion" as noted before, could refer to a reconstruction, if you will, of the thing which is generally regarded as a fundamental human impulse in a manner that doesn't suffer from the defects above observed in all the current religions known to me. While the better ones don't assert belief about counterfactual states of affairs in the physical world, they still fail the not even wrong test. In this § I sketch some expectations of such an Antireligion. | "Antireligion" as noted before, could refer to a reconstruction, if you will, of the thing which is generally regarded as a fundamental human impulse in a manner that doesn't suffer from the defects above observed in all the current religions known to me. While the better ones don't assert belief about counterfactual states of affairs in the physical world, they still fail the not even wrong test. In this § I sketch some expectations of such an Antireligion. | ||
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*To be consistent with rather than opposed to science and true knowledge, our Antireligion must not assert beliefs about the world including relations between | *To be consistent with rather than opposed to science and true knowledge, our Antireligion must not assert beliefs about the world including relations between living beings but rather find them out (delegated to the relevant scientific discipline, if it exists and functions properly).<br><br> | ||
*It must address the same concerns as religions do and further it must do so better (as would be expected if the calumny of "a lie at the heart of being" were redacted):<br><br> | *It must address the same concerns as religions do and further it must do so better (as would be expected if the calumny of "a lie at the heart of being" were redacted):<br><br> | ||
** The will and desire to overcome animal death. | ** The will and desire to overcome animal death. | ||
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== <span style="color: navy;">Freedom from Religion</span> == | == <span style="color: navy;">Freedom from Religion</span> == | ||
An early form of mass antireligion was expressed during the [[:en:Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], as early as the 17th century. [[:en:Baron d'Holbach]]'s book ''Christianity Unveiled'' published in 1761, attacked not only Christianity but religion in general as an impediment to the moral advancement of humanity. According to historian [[:en:Michael Burleigh]], antireligion found its first mass expression of barbarity in [[:en:French Revolution|revolutionary France]] as "organised ... irreligion...an 'anti-clerical' and self-styled 'non-religious' state" responded violently to religious influence over society.<ref>[[:en:Michael Burleigh]] ''Earthly Powers'' p 96-97 | An early form of mass antireligion was expressed during the [[:en:Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], as early as the 17th century. [[:en:Baron d'Holbach]]'s book ''Christianity Unveiled'' published in 1761, attacked not only Christianity but religion in general as an impediment to the moral advancement of humanity. According to historian [[:en:Michael Burleigh]], antireligion found its first mass expression of barbarity in [[:en:French Revolution|revolutionary France]] as "organised ... irreligion...an 'anti-clerical' and self-styled 'non-religious' state" responded violently to religious influence over society.<ref>[[:en:Michael Burleigh]] ''Earthly Powers'' p 96-97 ISBN 00-719572-9</ref> [[:en:Criticism of religion|Critic of religion]] [[:en:Christopher Hitchens]] was a well-known antireligionist of the 20th century who maintained opposition to religion, arguing that [[:en:Freedom of speech|free expression]] and scientific discovery should replace religion as the method of teaching [[:en:ethics]] and defining human civilization. | ||
The [[:en:Soviet Union]] adopted the political ideology of [[:en:Marxism-Leninism]] and viewed religion as closely tied with | The [[:en:Soviet Union]] adopted the political ideology of [[:en:Marxism-Leninism]] and viewed religion as closely tied with the capitalist order. It thus directed varying degrees of antireligious efforts at varying faiths. These antireligious campaigns were directed at all faiths,<ref name="countrystudies.us">http://www.countrystudies.us/russia/38.htm</ref><ref name="country-data.com">{{cite web| url=http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-12521.html| title=Soviet Union: Policy toward nationalities and religions in practice| date=May 1989| website=www.country-data.com| archivedate=2017-04-25}} </ref> including [[:en:Christian]], [[:en:Islamic]], [[:en:Buddhist]], [[:en:Jewish]], and [[:en:Shamanist]] religions. In the 1930s, during the [[:en:Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]ist period, the government destroyed church buildings or put them into secular use (as museums of religion and atheism, clubs or storage facilities), executed clergy, prohibited the publication of most religious material and persecuted some members of religious groups. | ||
= <span style="color: navy;">Notable antireligious people</span> = | = <span style="color: navy;">Notable antireligious people</span> = | ||
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= <span style="color: navy;">See also</span> = | = <span style="color: navy;">See also</span> = | ||
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= <span style="color: navy;">References</span> = | = <span style="color: navy;">References</span> = | ||
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