There are different categories. I consider myself agnostic atheist. That pretty much means I don't really know, but all this man made stuff is horse shit.
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It depends how you define "religion"
Atheism is a belief. You have a belief that there is no supernatural being or power. A lack of belief in anything is agnosticism, not atheism.
If you define religion as a belief (I would) then there you go. If it's a set of practices and dogmas, then technically Christianity isn't a religion and it's denominations are as they practice things differently and some have added dogmas or different interpretations, even though they believe in the same God and have the same fundamentals.
Atheism is a belief
No, it's not. Theism the belief in a higher power, put the prefix a- on it and you get "doesn't believe in a higher power"
Atheism is literally the lack of belief. It doesn't make a positive statement that there's not something there, it just means they don't believe
The lack of belief is agnosticism. Atheists believe that there is no god, which is an active belief
Nope agnosticism is the lack of knowledge.
It's two different and somewhat independent axes.
You're just wrong, as I explained
It's amazing how often Jesus freaks will assert they know about other groups and then get their information 110% wrong because they only learned what their in group says about them
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I'm fine with it on like a drop down or a form. No need to make things needlessly complicated. It's basically 'none' except it's clear. 'none' could be misleading, atheist is exact.
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If you're in the United States, the current situation decided by the judges is that Atheists have to argue as if they're a religion as well.
A lot of work will be needed to fix this error.
Can I use the Flying Spaghetti Monster
If you and your friends can argue that you have a prayer meeting spot for the spaghetti monster.
It's like a cheat code to get a judge to actually listen to how Christians are discriminating against your religion.
Hail pasta!
I am a literal ordained Dudist priest. I can, and even have, legally marry people. Because America is fucking crazy and makes this incredibly easy.
I don't know, you should be able to practice whatever religion you want. The conservatives however see religious freedom as you can be whatever kind of Christian you want.
It's all a bit vague, but one could say "Atheist is a religion and Agnostic is none, because Atheists believe there is no god or afterlife" but often Agnostic is considered a type of Atheist.
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