What Kind of Atheist are You?

[Angrboda]

I don't know what kind of atheist I am. I recently chose to embrace atheism and dump Hinduism, but I don't feel much different, and am not altogether certain I won't go back. Nothing seems to have changed.

In general, I think humans are a herd animal. Our brains are geared toward getting along in the herd, not for astounding feats of reason. It is because of this flaw in our nature, where you end up on the belief spectrum, to me, has less to do with reason than with the unseen currents of our subconscious and our biases. We drift more than we aim.

So I'm not the type to embrace labels of skeptic and humanist with pride. I see us all as basically dumb animals.

Anyway, as a result, I'm not so much anti-theist as just someone who likes good thinking, and the occasional tussle tearing apart bad thinking. Though for whatever reason, I've begun to tire of all the anti-theist threads, particularly those directed at Christianity. Maybe I've just been here too long. Or maybe it's my depression. But I've become tired of many of the debates and threads here. I'm not sure why.