lacktheknack said:
Father of Worlds said:
That ex-theists left their theism behind because of emotional or psychological abuse of some form. I'm sure there are some, but most become convinced for primarily intellectual reasons that their beliefs are wrong, and therefore change them.
Ex-theists, yes, but not ex-theistic antitheists. Which these two admit to being.
You can be antitheistic without it being because of emotional or psychological abuse. If you firmly believe that religion, on the whole, is a force for suffering and social destruction, then you are (or at least probably are) an antitheist. There's nothing about coming to view religious perspectives as inaccurate and flawed through rational inquiry and intellectual assessment that precludes viewing religion as a social evil, rather than a social good.
You're still laboring under the unfortunate "people who used to agree with me, but then stopped, must've changed their views because of some emotional trauma" psychological crutch (or, rather, you appear to be, in this particular case). Stop that.