I guess you can hate god as a concept. God can be proven to exists in human minds (no esoteric stuff, just psychology and sociology). You can hate this scientific fact and what it means for humankind.
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glorkon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No atheist hates god. How can you hate something you don’t think exists?
angrystego@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Tbf, you can think god isn’t “real” while also hating the concept of “god” for being responsible for so much war and division throughout history (among other reasons.)
glorkon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well in that case, if a religious person accuses you that you hate their god, it’s still not true. Because that religious person thinks of their god as a real entity, while you hate their concept of god. The target of that hate is not the same.
kshade@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People hate on fictional characters all the time though.
laserm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is a difference between god as a character and God as a concept; the former one is (in my belief) nonexistent, the latter exists as long as his worshipper worship him.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I dunno. I’m not entirely an atheist (my religion is blasphemy. If the gods exist, they like a target) but I can hate something I don’t think exists. Some of those deities are godsdamned genocidal maniacs and pedophiles.
Gladaed@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Since we are already being unhelpful: Atheist don’t all are unsure about if God exists. Some may believe God does not exist, some don’t care. Some believers might be unsure or don’t care either.
Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
being unsure or uncaring is supposed to be agnosticism, though. atheism is an outright rejection of the possibility. (this is NOT a commentary on if one is more correct than the other.)
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 3 weeks ago
The correct word would be “antitheist”
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s misotheist
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Then you just hate theists
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hate this xD
glorkon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s as may be, but that’s not the word that was used in the meme.