Re: A Possible New Way of Classifying Atheists/Agnostics
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I just thought it might be useful to classify nonbelievers into the camps of ex Jews and ex Christians (obviously there are other categories as well) and to get a thread going about the subject. The Sklansky Atheist Phylum.
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This can only be helpful if it is first stipulated that those persons in either categories were first observant Jews or practicing Christians in their early adult years and then came to a state of unbelief. Only if they really believed in and practiced their faith of their own volition and not just because of being brought up in that faith and made to attend services by their parents can a subsequent state of unbelief be much different than someone who was raised in a home with atheist/agnostic parents. einbert would seem to meet this stipulation.
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