Atheists Worldwide

‎"To be called an atheist, it's a negative view, and it suggests that one is a sort of professional atheist. You spend your life arguing against God, the way Russell did. And I think that's a sort of undignified and pointless procedure. Once you've decided there's no God, there's not much point inveighing against it, unless you think huge harm is being done by the belief in God. But nobody spends

their time trying to prove that the Greek Gods don't exist. You just decide they don't and that's the end of the story. I like to distinguish atheism from antitheism.
Antitheism is opposition to theism. I am an antitheist, because I believe that religion is harmful in human life. So I am an antitheist. I'm not just an atheist who suddenly, my only values are that I don't agree with it. I'm actively opposed to it. But then I distinguish that from post-theism or post-atheism, which is the healthy state of mind where you've put all that behind you.
Now, we can't do that yet, because there's lots of religion in the world and lots of bad results of it. But to me, in the ideal society the question of religion wouldn't arise, or if it did, it wouldn't be a heavy question for them."
Colin McGinn (philosopher)