How Many Types Of Atheism Is There?

[idiosyncrasy]

I thought that Atheism is just like any other faith; and now I see even they have many denominations.

[andy-hughes]

idio - // It is not a ridiculous post! I have been doing some research into Atheism, not for any particular reason, (just for something to do) and I have found that there can be as many as 17 different kinds of Atheism. //

I am intrigued to read that there are 'as many as seventeen different kinds of Atheism' when as I understand the term, it is the absence of something.

To my way of thinking, an absence can only have one interpretation, so i suggest that other sixteen (maybe more) is someone with too much time on their hands being semantic to the point of pointlessness.

[naomi24]

Idiosyncrasy, atheists reject the notion of supernatural gods. It’s that simple. How do your sources suggest that rejection manifests in seventeen different ways?

[idiosyncrasy]

Andy-Hughes
Just as there are different kinds of christians there can be different kinds of atheists. For example, you can have a passive atheist, or an evangelical one. There is a militant one or a closed one. etc

[jno]

yes, there are Muslim atheists

https://musliminstitute.org/freethinking/islam/islam-theres-more-one-way-be-atheist

https://free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9606651.msg352988#msg352988

[naomi24]

Idiosyncrasy, //For example, you can have a passive atheist, or an evangelical one. There is a militant one or a closed one. Etc//

That doesn’t mean those people hold varying opinions on the existence or otherwise of supernatural gods. All atheists reject that notion - whether they talk about it or not. You, and your sources, have your wires crossed.

Incidentally, in your OP you refer to atheism as a faith. It is not. No faith involved.

[Khandro]

n. in my post; 11:36 Sun. I wrote; [there are] "atheists who say they don't believe in God, and atheists who say there IS no God."

Why can you not see that these are two different stances & two different types of atheism?

[HansUrbancka]

idiosyncrasy ...... What a lot of nonsense. Although I am prepared to believe that there are two types of Atheists......Those who do Not believe in a God and those who pretend they do.

There are lots of non-believers amongst so called members of the cloth. Also as there are a number of positions one cannot hold as a non-believer (eg. Monarch of the UK, President of USA, etc) is it Not conceivable that there is often a pretence involved.

Hans.

[TrevorThePug]

"atheists who say they don't believe in God, and atheists who say there IS no God."

Damn those born-again Atheists for their certainty, Grrr.

[naomi24]

Khandro, perhaps you'll tell me what you think the difference is. From my point of view some are more capable than others of articulating their thoughts but both statements equate to rejection - and that is all that atheism is. There is no sliding scale of rejection.

[pixie374]

Ideo, those are different personality traits, not different "types" of atheism.

[goodlife]

We see history of mankind, atheism is on the march; and the Church is helpless to prevent the advance of anti-Christ.” It is spreading rapidly throughout the world. The idea that there is no God not only has engulfed a large proportion of the more than one billion people ruled by communism, but it has made amazing inroads upon the thinking of people in noncommunist lands.

But a wise person who loves righteousness, however, will never be turned away from God. He will regularly study the Bible, and will grow to love God for the marvelous provisions that He has made for life, and in a righteous new system of things to come . Indeed, it is the fool that “hath said in his heart, there is no God.”—Ps. 14:1

[naomi24]

Goodlife, twice there you’ve mentioned ‘righteousness’. Assuming, as an avid bible reader and advocate for God, you consider yourself ‘righteous’, doesn’t that make you arrogant - and therefore not as righteous as you think you are?

Nice new hat by the way - even with the misprint.

[idiosyncrasy]

A criticism of atheism is that it is a faith in itself as a belief in its own right, with a certainty about the falseness of religious beliefs that is comparable to the certainty about the unknown that is practiced by religions. Activist atheists have been criticized for positions said to be similar to religious dogma. In his essay Dogmatic Atheism and Scientific Ignorance for the World Union of Deists, Peter Murphy wrote: "The dogmatic atheist like the dogmatic theist is obsessed with conformity and will spew a tirade of angry words against anyone who does not conform to their own particular world view".

[idiosyncrasy]

Sorry a bout that last post, sent it before I finished.

The post was actually an extract from Wikipedia.

[naomi24]

//A criticism of atheism is that it is a faith in itself as a belief in its own right, with a certainty about the falseness of religious beliefs that is comparable to the certainty about the unknown that is practiced by religions.//

That criticism comes from theists who are incapable of understanding that ‘faith’ is surplus to requirements for those who have no reason to believe. If irrefutable evidence for the existence of God emerged, atheists would accept it. Would you accept the opposite?