Since agnostics are not an organized religious group, this can vary a great deal, or it may not take place at all.

Some agnostics may be more atheistic: they may not feel any divine presence, but they refuse consider themselves atheists on the grounds that there is no conclusive evidence that god doesn't exist. This kind of agnostic is not likely to worship any deity in any way.

Other agnostics may be closer to theistic or deistic (a deist believes in an impersonal, distant creator who does not become involved in any way with the creation): these people may feel some kind of undefinable divine presence in their lives, but they refuse to consider themselves theists on the grounds that there is no conclusive evidence that god exists. This type of agnostic may sometimes choose to participate individual or community religious worship.

If an agnostic does worship, which deity do they choose and how do they worship? Since agnostics are not all alike and fall along a broad continuum, the short answer would be "highly variable". It seems that religions with a vaguer concept of the godhead, such as Buddhism and Taoism, are more likely to appeal to an agnostic: but, again, there are no hard and fast creeds or rules for those whose essential religious stance is to take no stance!

For one thing, some people think they don't have any morals. Well, I'm an atheist, and try to make this world a tiny better place. Just like most people, religious or not, I guess.

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I never knew they were stereotyped. Me neither.

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When people know nothing about a issue they are generally to lazy to do any investigation into it. To hide their ignorance they adopt an easily learned stereotype (All pitbulls are vicious. All Mexican food is too spicy. All Chinese products are shoddy) and state it with great conviction - as if it is their opinion and result of much study.

How are we stereotyped? Generally we are seen as denying the "truth", afraid or ignorant of the facts, dangerous, immoral, untrustworthy, self centered, unpatriotic, stupid, communists, nihilists, anarchists, a conspiracy ... the list goes on.

Although some showboating atheists (like showboating evangelists) make a lot of noise about their opinions - most are content to in their own knowledge that there is no god - like children who have figured out that there is no Santa or monster under the bed. It is just another fact in a fact filled world. Evangelism is not a big atheist trait.

Atheists in our society have a tendency to hide their opinions - some folks try to convert us, others try to lump us in with Hitler and Stalin, others flat out don't believe our position. Granted this is better than the old response of letting us convert or die. This lack of everyday examples of "normal" atheists leads many folks to have only the stereotype to go by. Since the stereotype is generally so poisonous, many non-atheists would not be seen reading books on, or researching, atheist thinking for fear of being taken for "one of them"

The truth is that many folks you know and respect may well be atheists. We are in all lines of work, come in all colours, both sexes, young, old, grumpy and friendly. Our common bond is that we have independently thought our way through tough questions (Is there a god(s), is there a life after death, is there good and evil) and come to conclusions different from others in our society.

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Some people even mix up their stereotypes mixing atheists with satanist. with claiming atheists use the imagery of Satan and 666 as a culture shock to religious people. Obviously ATHEISTS don't believe in SATAN or GOD so it is a very stupid stereotype

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They are stereotyped the same way everything else is stereotyped in this country. Through ignorance. I am not an Atheist, but some of the stereotypes i have herd is that they believe in science over God, they ridicule Religious people and things of that nature.

It was suggested above that atheists and satanists are often "mixed" together. I suspect that is true. It is a common tenet of any organized religion or school of thought to put those who disagree with their particular brand of thinking into the same pot. Those who are not with us are against us after all. This is natural human behavior. People are paranoid and separatist or exclusionary by nature. We, quite frankly, are cliquish .

One responder suggested that the stereotype is rooted in ignorance. True to a point. Stereotypes like myths spring from some grain of fact. That is not to say that all stereotypes are true, or even any. This is not a defense for stereotypes either. Just an observation. It would be just as accurate to say that stereotypes spring from stupidity (ignorance is the condition of not knowing, stupidity is the choice to not know or to ignore the truth).

To say that an atheist has no morals is, perhaps, an example of what has been suggested in this answer. To say that, could also be an example of defensiveness on the part of one or some who espouse atheistic thought. Perhaps a little of both. Perhaps neither.

What this boils down to is the second part of the question, why. Well, it goes deep to the core of human behavior; call it instinct. If a member of the pack is presented with anything that is alien to his pack, he will fight it or run from it. Humans arepack animals. We group ourselves according to what we think, what we believe, what we know, how we live, how we dress, what we drive, what we do, and an infinite number of other unimportant and superficial things. We focus on what is different. We obsess about it. And, by doing so, we accomplish a couple of things. First, we ingratiate ourselves with the group to which we want to belong, or attempt to. Second, we avoid looking at the things within ourselves that we do not like and want no one else to see, or, again, attempt to. Neither can truly be successful.

Are stereotypes wrong? Maybe, maybe not. How many examples of stereotypical behavior do you see in the responses above? Maybe, stereotypes are just a thing that people do, and it matters less that people stereotype than it does how others respond to it.

One final thought: consider that every time one engages in stereotyping, he is performing a physical act of oxymoronic behavior; placing a stereotype on another person IS in itself stereotypical behavior.

A person who rejects the existence of any God is an Atheist.

A person who is ignorant of the God of Abraham is a heathen.

A person who worships other Gods is a pagan.

A person who doesn't believe in god at all is called an athiest (a- without, theism-beliefs on god).

However, there are also agnostics, people who believe god MIGHT exist, but haven't reached a conclusion.

The above answer is inadequate due to the fact that it is written in only Christian terms (i.e. "heathen" and "pagan"). The question is about the belief in the concept of God in general, not the Christian interpretation. To identify a follower of any religion that worships a god (or gods) other than the God of Abraham as "pagan" is to lump a vast array of diverse beliefs into one category; basically, you're saying that to have religion, you are either Christian or "other."

The simple answer to the question is this: If you believe that there is no god, you are an athiest. If you believe in the possibility of a god but do not believe that humans are capable of knowing for sure, you are an agnostic.
If you're refering to God as the deity in Christianity, then both atheists and agnostics fit in this category.

An Atheist denies the existence of a supreme being.

An Agnostic is someone who believes that there might be a God, but this and the essential nature of things are designed to be unknown.
An atheist is the opposite of a theist.

The theist believes there is evidence for the existence of their favorite god.

The atheist does not.

It would be illogical for the atheist to "deny" the existence of something for which there is no evidence. Atheism is merely the lack of a belief.

Knowledge is absolute. Since nobody can know with absolute certainty no gods exist, everyone is agnostic. So the so-called "agnostic" has the same lack of knowledge as the atheist or theist has. It's just commonly accepted that an agnostic does not commit either way.
Atheist: The conviction that there is definitely no God.

Agnostic: The belief that one cannot know for sure if there really is a God.

Non-theist: Indifference to the subject of God, or one who can't be bothered to think about whether or not God exists.

someone who does not believe in God is not necessarily an atheist, because there are many other religions that he or she may belong to, although these generally will have a God or gods as part of their system, with the possible exception of Buddhism. But, someone who does not believe in any God or gods at all, is an atheist.
Someone who doesn't believe in gods is called an atheist.

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If you don't believe in any kind of God, you are an atheist. If you believe in some kind of omnipotent deity but do not believe that man has any way of knowing the nature of this being, you are an agnostic.

Atheism is not a unified system of belief and as such the views on sexuality vary from atheist to atheist. Most atheists would say they believe in Evolution and so humans have evolved with sexuality for reproduction, the pleasure being a side effect to make the urge to seek out a mate desirable. As for ethics in sexuality these vary. But the individual thoughts about everything else regarding sex (sex without commitment, homosexuality, abortion) vary.

Christianity beleives that there is but one "correct" God out of the thousands that mankind has worshipped; Atheists believe that there is one less than that.

While no comments can be applicable to an entire group, the following points about the level of lifestyle and interactions with other people of :Atheists: and "Christians":

• Atheists follow an internal moral code - Christianity follows a moral code imposed on them.
• Atheists are individuals, Christians are a community of people which, more or less,t think the same.
• Atheist do not try to convert others, Christians often try to convert others
• Atheists do not impose their practices on the public, Christians have public prayers and so on
• Atheits do not wage religious wars on other nations

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Cosmologists and astrophysicists (people who study such matters) explain the creation of the Earth (the ball of solids, liquids and gases we live on) as the result of the mutual attraction and accumulation of matter created (either after the "Big Bang" or in process of continual conversion of matter into energy) through gravitational attraction and the pressure of light. The view is not the view of atheism but of science. As atheists have no supernatural belief to explain the existence of the Universe, the opinions and findings of science must, by default, be theirs.

You are an atheist simply if you do not believe in any god(s).

Most people who do not "believe" in evolution have that opinion because they have been misinformed or mislead about what evolution actually is and what that scientific theory states. Evolution is a fact, and is used by the Theory of Natural Selection to explain how diverse and complex life arose. It does not require nor it depends on faith or belief in a religious sense.

Most people who criticize evolution and Natural Selection don't actually understand them. People who understand them almost always consider them a fact because all the evidence indicates that they are true. Also, there is no evidence to indicate these scientific theories are false. Any Search Google for any evidence that evolution isn't true will almost certainly yield Creationist propaganda which either misrepresents the theory, or is flat out untrue.

A great resource for all that information is: http ://talkorigins.org

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Many Christians believe in God as well as understand and accept the scientific theory of evolution. Evolution just means "change over time" and is not antithetical to beliefs in higher powers.

Religion. Atheism is a single position on a single issue. Without religion there is no position to reject and therefore no reason to identify oneself as an Atheist. 'A' being not and theism basically meaning religion. I.E. nonreligious.

The question as posed can mean any of several things. Keeping in mind that atheists have no uniting positions except the absence of a deity, potential answers include:

• Atheism is the original state of human society before mankind invented gods and religion
• Modern atheism results from rational thought and a disenchantment with religion
• Atheist feel the human race rose from evolutionary pressures from earlier life forms
• Atheists feel the "ego" or self is a result from our brain structure
• The Universe arose from the "Big Bang"
• Life arose from natural process
• There is no meaning to lifr other than the continuation of the species