Six types of atheist

[Full Circle]

I lack belief that god/s exist = atheist.

This has very little, if anything, to do with the rest of my persona and imagine that is the same for many of you.

Interesting but that does beg the question - why?

The why might put you into one of the categories offered - or it might not.

I found the article interesting but that might be because I saw myself in it.

Classification of human behaviours is notoriously difficult and I cannot imagine those that created this research did so on the basis that everyone could be shoehorned into a given category but it does appear to me that this is not a bad effort.

I'd guess (on the basis of nothing but instinct) that the categories cover 95% of atheists right off the bat - allowing for people who straddle 2 or more categories.

At different times from my deconversion to the present I could have been shoehorned into any and all of these descriptions, hell even from one moment to the next. Most of the time I really don't think about it, then at a gathering someone says something religiously stupid and I become an anti-, other times I might give it great thought and I become an intellectual...see where I'm going?

Might as well ask me if I think I'm a hamburgerian or a pizzarian hock: I'm both at different times.