RE: Political Atheist

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Political Atheist

in introduceyourself •  8 years ago 

Hmmm.... Interesting ... Following this paradigm wouldn't atheist still kind of be the wrong label? I mean do you not believe it exists?

That's the part that I don't understand atheism is a lack of a particular belief in the existence of a god. I understand you switching the deity for a state head but you aren't denying or lacking belief in that.

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I did anticipate this sort of feedback and actually appreciate it. I alluded to the notion of "atheist" in this regard as metaphorical in stating "...rejects the notion of the deistic qualities..." and "Atheism, in a traditionally religious context..." It may have been more salient of me to have specifically spelled that out.

Seems like anti-theist might fit too.

That would certainly fit as well. Government as a physical institution to be sure, so even further it may have also been worthy to note and equate the idea that to the religious atheist, God as a sort of theory, is a figment of the imagination and to the political atheist, government as a theory of necessity, is also derived from imagination. Either are easily used as a means subjugate a largely unwitting public. This is especially so when the bulk of the masses either lack the ability or desire to logically think the proposition through.