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[web.archive.org] has "Atheist Taxonomy: The Five Varieties of Atheists" by Lucia K. B. Hall. I've added a few categories, and I must note that they are not mutually exclusive.

  • Nihilistic
    • Never gave it much thought
    • Don't care
    • Have other interests
    • (me) Too lazy to bother
    • (me) It is a waste of time
    • (me) Troll atheists
    • (me) Noble-lie atheists: religion as desirable as opium for the people
    • (me) Party-line atheists, out of believing some belief system or belonging to some organization
  • "Mad at god"
    • (me) Mad at religion
    • (me) Proud atheists: a god existing would be a great humiliation
    • (me) Depressed atheists: how terrible one's life is
  • Philosophical atheists
    • Logical ones
    • Emotional ones
    • (me) Religion-deficiency ones
  • Scientific atheists: god as an unnecessary hypothesis. God is either very far off or else acts very mechanistically
  • Reared atheists

What kind of atheist or agnostic might you be?

lpetrich 5 Mar 11
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