Antitheism, also spelled anti-theism, is the philosophical position that theism should be opposed.

Opposition to theism

Antitheism has been adopted as a label by those who regard theism as dangerous, destructive, or encouraging of harmful behavior. Christopher Hitchens (2001)</blockquote>New's changed definition has reappeared in the work of W.A. Murphree.

Examples of belief systems founded on the principle of opposition to the properties of any deity include some forms of Atheistic Satanism and maltheism.

Opposition to the existence and the properties of any deity

The definition of Robert Flint (1877), Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh was similar. Flint's 1877 Baird Lecture was titled Anti-Theistic Theories.

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