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It's no longer enough to simply say, "I'm an atheist."
These days, one must clarify exactly what is meant by that. Otherwise, you come off sounding so vague that you might be mistaken for a mystic.
Fortunately, two researchers from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Christopher Silver and Thomas Coleman) have cho-cho-chosen to take most of the guesswork out of atheism.
They interviewed 59 folks, and concluded that "atheism is an ontologically [look it up] diverse community."
They also concluded that there's not just one – or even two, three, four or five – type(s) of atheism. Folks… there are six (that's half a dozen to those who buy eggs).
They be as follows: Intellectual atheist/agnostics (you
know the type - always citing, quoting and contending), Activists
(trying to convert the rest of society to their views), Seeker-agnostic (they
"embrace uncertainty"), Anti-theist
(aggressively opposed to what they interpret as "obvious fallacies"), Non-theist
(simply not concerned - one way or another - with religion), and Ritual
Atheist (although not believers in "God," they still enjoy some religious-type rituals, gatherings and ideas).
Resources
http://wwrn.org/articles/40240/?place=united-states
Copyright July 19, 2013 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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