Antireligion är motsättningen av religion (organiserad trosuppfattning) i alla former.[1][2][3] Begreppet har använts för att beskriva motstånd mot organiserad religion, religiösa metoder eller religiösa institutioner. Denna term har också använts för att beskriva motstånd mot specifika former av övernaturlig tillbedjan eller övning, oavsett om det är organiserat eller ej. Motstånd mot religionen går också bortom det misotheistiska spektret. Som sådan skiljer sig antireligion från gudomspecifika positioner som ateism (bristen på tro på gudar) och antiteism (ett motstånd mot tro på gudar); även om "antireligionister" också kan vara ateister eller antiteister.

Kända antireligiösa människor redigera

Filosofer
Politiker
Övriga
  • Haruki Murakami, japanska romanförfattare som skrev: "Gud existerar bara i människors sinnen. Guds har alltid varit ett slags flexibelt koncept, särskilt i Japan. Titta på vad som hände med kriget. Douglas MacArthur beordrade den gudomliga kejsaren att sluta vara en Gud, och han gjorde ett tal och sade att han bara var en vanlig person."
  • Bill Maher, som skrev och starred i Religulous, en 2008-dokumentär kritiserande och hånande religion.
  • Marcus Brigstocke, brittisk komiker.
  • James Randi, tidigare trollkarl, professionell "debunker" av psykiker, outspoken ateist och grundare av James Randi Educational Foundation.
  • Philip Roth, nutida judisk-amerikansk romanförfattare. "Jag är anti-religiös. … Det är bara en stor lögn. … Jag har så stor motvilja mot det olyckliga religionsrekordet." The Guardian, 2005-12-14 The Guardian.
  • Matt Dillahunty, värd för ateistupplevelsen och före detta president för ateistgemenskapen i Austin, deltar i debatter med apologer.

Se även redigera

Referenser redigera

  1. ^ ”Anti-religion”. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-Webster Online. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-religion. Läst 26 september 2017. 
  2. ^ ”Antireligion”. Collins Dictionary. Collins Dictionary Online. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/antireligion. Läst 26 september 2017. 
  3. ^ A Dictionary of Atheism. Oxford University Press 
  4. ^ Marx, K. 1976. Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Collected Works, v. 3. New York.
  5. ^ "Dewey felt that science alone contributed to 'human good,' which he defined exclusively in naturalistic terms. He rejected religion and metaphysics as valid supports for moral and social values, and felt that success of the scientific method presupposed the destruction of old knowledge before the new could be created. …" (Dewey, 1929, pp. 95, 145) William Adrian,
  6. ^ "I think all the great religions of the world – Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and Communism – both untrue and harmful. It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they disagree, not more than one of them can be true. ... I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue." Bertrand Russell in "My Religious Reminiscences" (1957), reprinted in The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell [1] Arkiverad 5 december 2008 hämtat från the Wayback Machine. Arkiverad 2008-12-05
  7. ^ Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful! The Guardian, 2001-10-11
  8. ^ Grimes, William (16 december 2011). ”Christopher Hitchens, Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, Dies at 62”. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0. Läst 15 februari 2015. 
  9. ^ "[T]he Bible, contrary to what a majority of Americans apparently believe, is far from a source of higher moral values. Religions have given us stonings, witch-burnings, crusades, inquisitions, jihads, fatwas, suicide bombers, gay-bashers, abortion-clinic gunmen, and mothers who drown their sons so they can happily be united in heaven." The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion Arkiverad 9 maj 2008 hämtat från the Wayback Machine., presentation by Steven Pinker to the annual meeting of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Madison, Wisconsin, October 29, 2004, on receipt of “The Emperor’s New Clothes Award.”
  10. ^ "Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about the religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class."Lenin, V. I.. ”About the attitude of the working party toward the religion”. Collected works, v. 17, p.41. Arkiverad från originalet den 20 juli 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720123014/http://www.psylib.ukrweb.net/books/maenl01/txt17. Läst 9 september 2006. 
  11. ^ http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/anti_rel.html
  12. ^ Grossman, J. D.. Khrushchev's Anti-Religious Policy and the Campaign of 1954.