(May 7, 2013 at 3:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 7, 2013 at 2:12 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: There are plenty of atheists who are neither nihilists nor rationalists.Tell me more. It seems to me that you either believe in a reality that acts according reason or you do not.
I suppose, but atheism isn't the word for believing in a reality that acts according to reason. You can't divide different categories along the same lines.
There's nothing inconsistent with being an atheist and believing in (say) ESP, although a rationalist would be hard-put to justify having such a belief. There's also nothing inconsistent with being an atheist while being a Buddhist, Jain, Taoist, Raellian, Jedi, etc.