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rug

(82,333 posts) Sat Dec 19, 2015, 03:30 PM Dec 2015

Do You Believe In God? The Opposite Of God-Believer Isn’t Always An Atheist. Here’s More.

Ananta Sharma
Dec 19, 2015

The followers of various religions have their own concepts of God. However, when it comes to the opposite of the believers- the atheists, explaining their ideology is very simple. They are all non-believers, or so we think.

It may not be in common knowledge, especially of non-readers, but atheism also has many types. While all the types come down to meaning “non-believers”, there are small but significant attributes that set them apart from one another.

According to an interesting atheism study published in CNN on July 15th, 2013, and conducted by two researchers, Mr. Silver and Mr. Coleman at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, atheism is an umbrella of at least 6 types.

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The six types are:

1. Intellectual Atheist

http://www.storypick.com/types-of-atheism/

http://www.atheismresearch.com/

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Do You Believe In God? The Opposite Of God-Believer Isn’t Always An Atheist. Here’s More. (Original Post) rug Dec 2015 OP

Oh for pity's sake Boomer Dec 2015 #1

Simple nonbelief needs very little explanation. rug Dec 2015 #2

Then you're talking about other things, not non-belief Boomer Dec 2015 #3

Exactly. Which is why I don't see atheism as a banner for political activities of any sort. rug Dec 2015 #4

There is an intersection with politics Boomer Dec 2015 #6

Mere Atheism, eh? MisterP Dec 2015 #5

Boomer

(4,168 posts)

1. Oh for pity's sake

Reply to rug (Original post)

Sat Dec 19, 2015, 04:14 PM

Dec 2015

This is totally over-thinking the topic. Belief in supernatural beings is what needs to be explained, not non-believing.

rug

(82,333 posts)

2. Simple nonbelief needs very little explanation.

Reply to Boomer (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 19, 2015, 04:18 PM

Dec 2015

What people stretch it to include, does.

Boomer

(4,168 posts)

3. Then you're talking about other things, not non-belief

Reply to rug (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 19, 2015, 10:16 PM

Dec 2015

There is no "ideology of unbelief" that is not rooted in other religions. If you have to go out of your way to explain why you don't believe in a Christian god, then you are to some degree a Christian. You are enmeshed in that perspective and must draw your arguments from that dogma.

Who bothers to create an ideology for why they don't believe in Zeus? No one. They simply don't believe.

I'm an atheist. I don't believe in any of your gods, whoever and whatever they might be in your own mind. I don't need to dwell on whatever theological concepts make sense to you because they're not my concepts. I don't need to justify or explain why I don't believe what you believe because it's none of my business what notions other people are carrying around in their brain.

(The "you" is general, not specific to the OP)

rug

(82,333 posts)

4. Exactly. Which is why I don't see atheism as a banner for political activities of any sort.

Reply to Boomer (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 19, 2015, 10:21 PM

Dec 2015

Or religion as a banner for political activities for that matter.

Boomer

(4,168 posts)

6. There is an intersection with politics

Reply to rug (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 20, 2015, 01:01 PM

Dec 2015

The only time I see any intersection between politics and atheism is when there is an attempt to legislate based on Christian theology... although even there I see that as a matter of separation of Church and State, which should be a principle supported by everyone, regardless of their personal belief.

But if I understand you correctly, we're in agreement about not seeing atheism as a rallying point of political activism. In itself, it's a void, a null state. It only exists when put in opposition to religion, which is religion's issue, not mine.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

5. Mere Atheism, eh?

Reply to Boomer (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 20, 2015, 12:17 AM

Dec 2015

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