• @angrystego@lemmy.world
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      1215 days ago

      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.

    • @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1215 days 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
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        715 days 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.

    • @laserm@lemmy.world
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      514 days 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
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      415 days 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
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      114 days 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
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        213 days 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.)