Antitheism is Anti-identity Politics, The Antitheism Manifesto

Critiques of religion or theistic belief systems are distinct from religious phobias, which target and discriminate against individuals based on their religious identity. Even a secular humanist approach endorses the right to use reason to scrutinize and oppose harmful ideas, including religious ones, but condemns prejudice and bigotry against people of faith; however, the uneducated and those who put faith before intelligence, knowledge, reasoning, logic, and the collective oneness and our obligatory stewardship of humanity and the planet, are fueling a game.

People need to understand, there's a big difference between bigotry and principled antireligion. Being xenophobic, Islamophobic, or phobic against any other single religion is about targeting people because of who they are. Being antitheist or antireligious is about logic, reasoning, and opposing tools, ideas, and the social power that idea holds. We don't single out one faith because of skin color or culture; we oppose all religions equally because all religions function as man-made systems that can, and often do, enforce authority, justify exclusion, and carve societies into hateful rival tribes.

We aren't saying people should be punished for believing; we're saying religion should not hold special legal, political, or educational privileges. Religions are schools of thought, teaching philosophical views. We're tired of faith being used as the excuse for sectarian supremacy, for segregational divisions, and for policies that prioritize identity over evidence, rights, and common humanity; most importantly, we're tired of religion being a centralized source of inhumanism and crimes against humanity.

Humanity now has tools, logic, science, institutions built on knowledge, evidence, and equal rights, that make religious explanations unnecessary as the basis for law and public life. If you hold a religion and it comforts you, fairy tales and other fictional works can do that. If it makes you a more humane person, philosophies can do that too. But too many demand that your beliefs become public law or that your faith get a louder voice in civic life than secular, evidence-based reasoning; and you will unalive or commit crimes against humanity any time you're told your deities say so, turning cardinal vices and deadly sins into values and virtues.

We want to eliminate this; nothing should come before humanity or the planet, individuals should have no special treatment, no political power derived from divine claims, and an end to the identity-politics circus that religion's bread not only fuels but creates by its mere existence. The difference is our manifesto justifies Antitheism and antireligion as a necessary component of humanitarianism, collectivism, and responsibility, viewing it as a principled stand against a system that inherently fragments and violates the species and undermines evidence-based ethical governance.

And all claims against theism and religion have historical backing, even in the year 2025, there are wars being committed, and both genocides and homicides being committed in both the name of religion and deities. Across history, religions have again and again provided moral permission for atrocity; sometimes as pretext, sometimes as conviction. This isn’t a coincidence but a structural feature of the religious idea itself: when truth is claimed as divine, dissent becomes sin, and violence becomes virtue. That’s not an overgeneralization; it’s the historical record. No more religious circuses to distract and no more scripture or religious text to act as bread to manipulate.

We are the allies of all of humanity, of all innocence both including non-human life, we are guardians of all and defenders of collective oneness and obligatory stewardship.

I would like to conclude with a side note regarding the labels I have assigned to this blog: antitheism, communism, critique of identity politics, Enlightenment rationalism, indigenous oneness and stewardship, political theory, secular humanism, academia, and philosophy. This manifesto draws on aspects of each of these traditions and fields. If the connections are not immediately clear, I encourage further exploration and study of these subjects to fully appreciate the interwoven ideas presented here.

And as far as making overgeneralizations about the negative aspects of religion, when up to half of human history is no longer centered around the negative actions of religions and actions committed in the name of some religion and God, when religion's impact becomes a spec of dust in human history, people will finally no longer have eons of documentation via recorded human history to support antitheist claims.