Question: What type of atheist are you?

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Answer #1:

The type that doesn't believe in any gods. But if I had to choose one of your "types", I guess I would be none of what you described.

Answer #2:

I am an anti-theist because of what religion has done to the world.

Answer #3:

4.) The sexy atheist.

Answer #4:

Type II diabetes for me.

Answer #5:

Really?
You're able to fit so many millions of people into just those 3 little categories?


Well, that must make your world cozy.

Answer #6:

I am the type that doesn't put atheists into a "type". We are all too different, united by our shared non-belief in god.

Answer #7:

The kind that doesn't believe in gods.

The characteristics you list have nothing to do with anyone's atheism, they have to do with the personality of the individual, and there are considerably more possibilities than just three.

I don't fit in your little box. You don't have me figured out. If you understood atheists at all, you'd understand that before posting your condescending little question/non-question.

Answer #8:

I'm about a 1.4, I think.

I used to be a believer but lost my faith. I spent a lot of effort thinking about the hypothetical God that I had been imagining, but, eventually came to terms with the fact that it was really unbelievably silly. Now, I only think about hypothetical deities when other people bring up the one or ones that they are imagining.

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Regards,

John Popelish

Answer #9:

You should add a type 4 (or an addition to a type 2): Those are who respect others for their beliefs and like to have healthy debates (respectful debates) with theists.
I'm a Christian, but I have the most respect for those.
What would be the types of Christians?

Answer #10:

You believe you have a personal relationship with the creator of the universe, but *I'M* the egotistical/superior one?

Answer #11:

How about a 4th type:

I describe myself as atheist, but I don't call myself "an atheist". I am open to being shown evidence/proof of some kind of god, but I don't spend my life waiting on, or hoping for, said evidence. If the evidence were to ever be discovered, then I will reevaluate my beliefs based on the new evidence.

Answer #12:

There are three types of xtians:
mentally retarded
mentally ill
mentally challenged

Answer #13:

I don't think I fit any of those. To me I think I'm like the type 1 minus the wish to believe in gods. At this point I don't feel the need or desire to any more then to believe in elves. I'm sure though as well there are theists who are offended by that and would say that makes me the type 3. I don't debate people who are just following their own thing without being pushy to others. I do visit here whenever I'm online, its interesting some of the ideas people have on here, and its become my habit to have it in the background and answer periodic questions. 95% of which I estimate are addressed to atheists specifically from theists looking to be argumentative.

Answer #14:

REASON:

Because we know about god. We have heard all about him. And we know that there are alternative motives to Christians wanting us to "save our souls". We believe God doesn't exist so why push us further? you're not going to change us. We are not going to hell because it does not exist, sorry. No proof. You show us proof then we'll be with you paying our 10% of our income to church or whatever.

We feel offended when you come to our houses at 6pm telling us we are going to hell because once in our life we told a white lie and didn't praise god, asking for forgiveness.

We feel offended when you say we should put something else before our family: god. That's like putting the easter bunny before our family. And I'd hate to scare my kids by telling them if they are not good they will burn in hell. That is not nice. However, it is a great way to...

Control the masses.

And make lots of money.

I've read parts of the bible which are horrible. And I have read many things that contradict themselves. I don't like it. I think some of the words are evil. Killing babies? Stoning people to death? And what about "God loves everyone" yet he hates homosexuals? That this is evil and a sin but god has given this to some? Sorry but this is 2010. The bible is much outdated.

The bible is an effective man-made tool to control people and make money. Sorry but it's true.


And That's what kind of athiest I am. Hope that answered your questions, all the best.

Answer #15:

How interesting that you have decided, based on your own limited experience, to put billions of people into three specific categories based only on your own ideas.

It's also interesting that the only ones of those three groups you seem to find "acceptable" are ones that will apparently listen to your superstitious ideas about magical gods without laughing their heads off.

I should correct you on something, though: being "offended" by the actions of those that believe in magical gods is not the same as being "offended" by the god they believe in. A god that doesn't exist isn't a problem, the problem is the people who believe in that god and their harmful actions in the world we all share.

Peace.

Answer #16:

By your definition, I would be a type III, but since you write so condescendingly I am obligated to return the favour by addressing a few points that you made:

"He is hostile."
Only because religious men are hostile to other men. Not only are you hostile to gays and atheists, but you are hostile to each other. Repeal Prop 8 and then I may have a modicum of respect for you.

"Though the vast majority of the Earth believes in a creator."
The vast majority of people also believe that the sky is blue because it reflects the colour of the oceans. Just because the vast majority believes something doesn't mean it's not bollocks.

"their only motivation is to be superior to you."
I am not motivated to to be superior to you. I write music, speak four languages, and I teach math. I am more intelligent than you. That's just a fact.

"trying to save their soul."
If you really care about other people, perhaps you should try to do something that's actually useful - like building schools and hospitals.

Answer #17:

I think there would be one type of atheist - the type that needs to take heed to this:

C S Lewis expands on the idea and shows why the non Christian really has no logical alternative but to accept that Jesus is God:

“I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.

You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. “

Answer #18:

i'm most properly described within the bounds of atheism as a metaphysical atheist, however that metaphysical outlook is spiritual in nature in that it's central concept is a partly undefined 'Dynamic Quality'. Philosophically 'Dynamic Quality' is the biological equivalent of stem cells - it can become any type of quality in the same way stem cells can grow into any type of cell . i care about good, i care about quality.

everyone good, is on my team, in this world - i most commonly refer to myself as a spiritual atheist because simply calling myself a metaphysical atheist makes others think i'm aloof or reckon myself based on being clever and discord amongst the good guys is not my aim, their success is.

within your numbered choices i cannot be a one and i cannot be a two - i think about religious quality a lot yet do not wish to pigeonhole my beliefs so dramatically as to take on the prescriptive disenfranchisement of the dogma of any specific religion . - i'm sad to report your, negatively worded, number three holds the only description that relates to me that being "believes he is above religion" but i can, and do, qualify that assertion. in a way that can satisfy all of my good intent, freedom from bigotry and openness to possibility.

I also differentiate both between religions and between individual adherents within a religion. My response to religion is based on quality of output by that religion or adherent - there is a vast difference, for example, between a follower bringing quality into our world because of their beliefs and one who lessens their dynamic potential by deferring responsibility to god in the same beliefs - differentiation is key. i hold 'good happening' in as high esteem as the religious hold their gods so i do not value generalising in regard to quality.





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