[5] Antitheism has been adopted as a label by those who regard theism as dangerous, destructive, or encouraging of harmful behavior.
Christopher Hitchens (2001)[6] wrote: I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
"[6]Other definitions of antitheism include that of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1953), for whom it is "an active struggle against everything that reminds us of God".
In particular, he notes that it has been used as a subdivision of atheism, descriptive of the view that theism has been disproven, rather than as the more general term that Flint preferred.
He imagines what arguments for the existence of an evil god would look like, and writes New's changed definition has reappeared in the work of W.A.