How many different denominations of Atheists are there?

Question

Every question I ask seems to rile a different sect.

There seems to be a science sect.
A spiritual sect.
A sect that only objects to Christians.
A sect that wants to destroy religion.
A sect that is indifferent.

You seem to have as many sects as Christians. Not to mention some of you also claim religions to be in the Atheist groups.

Answer 1

Atheist have the freedom to pick and chose since they have no one to be accountable to. This liberty allows them to change positions whenever a new thought occurs. Since they are always changing directions they often become lost in their way.

Answer 2

There aren't different sects of atheism because atheism is not a religion, atheism is pure and simple, there are no mixed messages, just that atheists do not share the belief in god or gods that theists hold.

Answer 3

Opponents of atheism have frequently associated atheism with immorality and evil, often characterizing it as a willful and malicious repudiation of God or gods. This, in fact, is the original definition and sense of the word, but changing sensibilities and the normalization of non-religious viewpoints have caused the term to lose most of its pejorative connotations in general parlance.


There are three major traditions in defining atheism and its subdivisions. The first tradition understands atheism very broadly, as including both those who believe that no god or gods exist (strong atheism) and those who are simply not theists (weak atheism). George H. Smith, Michael Martin, and Antony Flew fall into this tradition, though they do not use the same terminology. The second tradition understands atheism more narrowly, as the conscious rejection of theism, and does not consider absence of theistic belief or suspension of judgment concerning theism to be forms of atheism. Ernest Nagel, Paul Edwards and Kai Nielsen are prominent members of this camp.

A third tradition, seldom used by atheists, understands atheism even more narrowly than that. Here, atheism is defined in the strongest possible terms, as the positive belief that there are no deities. Under this definition, all weak atheism, whether implicit or explicit, may be considered non-atheistic.

Answer 4

Atheist is not the belief that God doesn't exist. It is the absence of a belief in a god. There's a world of difference between those two statements.
To say that Atheism is the belief against God is to say that Christians are Atheist to the Islamic God because they don't belief in Allah.
At any rate, Atheism is not a faith. It is the lack of belief. There is no customs or rituals. There is no atheist pope. LOL

Answer 5

nice attempt to work sect in there.

Well, atheism is not a coherent group. Although, seeing all the different christian denominations I wonder how coherent that group really is (protestant, catholic, baptist, god-knows-whatist, the list seems endless).

We don't go to atheist antichurch, I'm not supposed to tell you about the secret handsh...

anyway, as many types of atheists as there are people.

Answer 6

Most Athiests don't identify as belonging to a particular philosophy. Athiesm is the lack of belief in God, which does not mean they belong to any sect whatsoever.

Of course many athiests will have different opinions about issues and morality, but they don't divide themselves into clear groups based on their differences.

Answer 7

Atheism is not a religion. Geez. Simply put they don't belive in god, but they do believe in reason and logic. Since people are different, everyone is going to have a different opinion. You are allowed to disagree and make your own decisions on life.

Answer 8

I don't know that there are different denominations literally. Maybe you are referring to some atheist who post answers that are bitter, and others that post that generally want to be informative. I think all persons of different beliefs can learn from one another. I get very frustrated with the bashing that often occurs.

Answer 9

Well, we have the Non-Assembly of God, The First Chuch of No God in No Christ, The No-Gospel Church of the Dubious Word of Non-God, the Episopagans, The Roaming Catholics.

Oh, lots.

Answer 10

Good question. Almost all athiests are scientific rationalists. We reject gods, spirits, afterlifes and the supernatural. There are a few "faux atheists" who believe in "spirits" but not God. There are also private atheists and activist atheists.