The Sects of Atheism

[The Grand Nudger]

A different level of misunderstanding? Yes, it is.

I am still waiting for someone to explain, coherently, and I'll add the BBC to my list, how not being convinced that gods exist can be a religion?

There is no dogma, doctrine, holy texts, edicts that are connected to atheism.

Anything else you seem to want to glom onto not being convinced gods exist, have nothing to do with atheism.

Sure. Basically the word that binds you all together is the word “atheism”. In this group there are many interpretations of what that means and you also classify yourselves into different categories like Agnostic Atheists, Atheists or Materialistic Atheists.
These traits are similar to a religion with different denominations.

Strange, seems to me that people have been pretty consistent in telling you that atheism means just the one thing, about just one thing....but you walk away with some other impression?

I doubt it.  I'm pretty sure you walked in with a particular set of impressions and are having trouble flogging them.

Sure, agnostic atheists and so-called hard atheists are different. They answer a question about the status of their belief in god the same way, but answer any number of other questions differently, just like blonde people might. Why does this give you so much trouble? It's the fabric of your everyday life, you know that people who agree on one item, or are like each other in one respect, often don't or aren't on another..you know it from your own experience.

The reason that none of them are religions, or religious denominations, is that none of them are religious claims. If you knew that someone was an agnostic atheist or a gnostic atheist..you still wouldn't know what they thought about the sacred, the set apart and the forbidden, or if they belonged to any community which shared those apprehensions about those other things.