Is atheism an identity?
Yes
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No
Side Score: 2
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The difference between being an atheist and say, for example, being a feminist is that being an atheist only requires one denial of a claim, as where the other requires a set of shared opinions; therefore any two atheists could disagree on any number of other issues and yet remain uncontradicted as atheists. The same could not be said for feminism. Side: No
I don't disagree with your assessment of atheism... but your evaluation of feminism seems rather off. The minimal requirement for feminism is really just a rejection of patriarchy, there are numerous divergent schools of feminism when you get into detail beyond that, and feminists disagree on a broad range of other issues without contradicting their basic position. Side: Yes
i'm merely using feminism for sake of argument. Perhaps it is a bad example considering the amount of separate schools of though in feminism. Even if this were the case, and they shared a rejection of patriarchy, their separate ideas are necessarily derived from that shared tenant. The same could not be said for atheism. Side: Yes
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