Atheist Categories.

This list is far from exhaustive, so when you think of another type - just put them under miscellaneous.

1) Can't be bothered to think about it all. (This category can overlap considerably with agnostics.) We really should resist feeling that this group 'deserves all that they have coming'. Instead, we must love all the atheists we meet - or, at the very least, make the attempt.

2)"Bad stuff happens ergo there is no God." A category for simplistic thinkers - those who cannot grasp that their argument is about the nature of God and not His existence.

3) Those who do not like God's rules ergo, there is no God. (See explanation above.)

4) The honest: those who just don't get it.

5) Those who have had some bad experience with a: church, believer, minister, Christian, alleged Christian etc. Sadly, this is a large group.

6) The propaganda fodder. These are the people who are lectured so much, by those allegedly more intelligent than they, that they simply give up. They fall prey to: scientists, comedians, celebrities, satirists and the sway of the media.

7) Those who hate God.

8) Those who wish to remain ignorant as anything else might interfere with their intellectual bone idleness.

9) Those who fear God and/or death to such an extent that they pretend that He must not - indeed, cannot - exist.

10) Perhaps the worst group of all - the hardliners - those who are atheists directly because of their (usually, but not exclusively) leftist beliefs.

11) Miscellaneous.

 

Do please remember that mix 'n' match is always possible.