Jugurba, your comments tickled something in my mind that I have toyed with in a casual, forgettable fashion.

If people are divided into two categories of theists and atheists; and if theists can be further subdivided into various belief systems; is there an analogous subdivision of unbelievers?

Put another way, is atheism, monolothic? Does the etymology of the definition a-theism demand that any who claim a-theism must have the same belief?

That sounds unclear, so let me try again. Theism has a rich terrain of ideas and perspective (many of which result in mutual bloody murder, but that's for another thread) dealing with the concept of spirituality as a tool for rationalizing existence. Does atheism also have within it a similar search of rationalization of existence? Or does negation of theism mean that the search must only be a-spiritual?

I'm still not clear, am I.

Oh well, maybe one of you can sharpen my impricision.