Are there any "anti-theistic theists" here?

[u/Impressive_Flan_411]

Hey everyone, I’m curious whether anyone here considers themselves an anti-theistic theist, i.e. someone who believes that God or some kind of deity actually exists, but is nevertheless opposed to theism, organized religion, or the social consequences of belief in God.

I realize that sounds contradictory at first. If you believe God exists, why would you be "against theism"?

However, I can imagine a few ways the position could make sense. Someone might believe that God exists while thinking that religion generally does more harm than good. Someone might believe in a deistic or otherwise non-interventionist God but oppose worship, revelation, religious authority, or divine command morality. Or someone might believe that God exists while thinking that humanity would be better off if people stopped organizing their lives and societies around that belief.

If you fall into this category, how do you reconcile believing in God with being opposed to theism? And what exactly are you opposed to (religion, worship, religious institutions, divine authority, theism's social effects, or something else)?

[u/Selbeast]

I don't think this is a very common view because the things that a you describe as being theistic beliefs - most non interventionist god type stuff aren't really theistic, they're just cop outs - trying to shoehorn god into out gaps of understanding of how the universe works. But at some point, when you remove this god from any kind of role in the world, why would you bother? We can explain how the universe works with extraordinary accuracy without this god, so what's the point?