Antireligion is opposition to all religions. People who are antireligious may see religions as dangerous, destructive, divisive, foolish, or absurd. This opposition may be confined to just organized religions such as Christianity, Islam, or Scientology, or may be more general to include all forms of belief and superstition. For this reason people who are antireligious may not always be lacking in spirituality.

Antireligion is often based on rationality, such as arguments against the validity, usefulness, or ethicality of religion. Antireligious activity has ranged from criticizing and arguing against religion, to actively persecuting religious groups or outlawing religious practice.

Antireligious organizations include the Society of the Godless.

Notable antireligious people

• Richard Dawkins, a militant atheist
• Enver Hoxha, leader of AlbaniaEstablished the first instance of official state atheism where possession of religious objects such as a Qur'an or a Bible led to prison sentences.
• Bertrand Russell, British philosopher"I think all the great religions of the world - Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and Communism - both untrue and harmful. It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they disagree, not more than one of them can be true. ... I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue." Bertrand Russell, 1957, from My Religious Reminiscences reprinted in The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell^*

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