Descriptivism vs prescriptivism is going to play a role here.
I think all those terms are going to have hella blurry definitions.
Atheist is going to be the blurriest since even people who aren’t against the possibility of a god(s)’s existence refer to themselves with it. As do people who aren’t against “spiritual” but don’t believe in deities. Etc.
As for secularism, that’s a term that can be used to describe both personal religion/philosophy and/or political stance on religion in relation to society/governance. Not to mention that there are several different “secular” models of looking at the universe so there will be diversity within this term and some overlap with the other terms you mentioned
Also anti-theist as in:
against the idea of the existence of deities?
against the worship of deities regardless of existence?
against theistic religion?
against religions/spiritualities in general?
against letting people believe in gods?
that we should fight against and/or kill gods? (The best option ofc)
Do people have the same understanding of the words as you do? I don’t think anyone here can answer that because it depends on what definitions you’re personally holding to.
Descriptivism vs prescriptivism is going to play a role here.
I think all those terms are going to have hella blurry definitions.
Atheist is going to be the blurriest since even people who aren’t against the possibility of a god(s)’s existence refer to themselves with it. As do people who aren’t against “spiritual” but don’t believe in deities. Etc.
As for secularism, that’s a term that can be used to describe both personal religion/philosophy and/or political stance on religion in relation to society/governance. Not to mention that there are several different “secular” models of looking at the universe so there will be diversity within this term and some overlap with the other terms you mentioned
Also anti-theist as in:
Do people have the same understanding of the words as you do? I don’t think anyone here can answer that because it depends on what definitions you’re personally holding to.