Reactionaries

It seems to me that those who rebel against repressive religion by identifying with what a specific religion fears are still locked within its framework. The Religious want to pretend that their own specific faith is the only view; and your either for or against them. Taking the "against" side within such a narrow context might serve to offend the oppressor, but it also kowtows to the limits they set on thought.

You can't be "AntiChrist" without the "Christ" part.

This is all very parochial, since most of the world's cultures throughout history made do without taking a stance ( pro or con ) towards a faith they never heard of.

If I truly believe that the boundaries someone has set up are imaginary, I go where I please; I don't spend a lifetime standing immediately on the other side in defiance.

( This is one of the reasons that we don't spend too much time here dwelling on what passes for Anti-thought. We are ourselves. We aren't what they fear, because they don't have enough smarts to imagine us as we are. )

Dante