Atheism requires no belief other than that the evidence for gods is insufficient to the atheist to justify the belief that a god or gods exist. There is no dogma. Furthermore, even if there were dogma, that alone is not sufficient to call atheism a religion.
I can't, unless you are referring to gods described as having mutually exclusive properties at the same time. Those I can rule out, like married bachelors. There's no such thing, and one needn't search the world to know that.
It's both. Most atheists are also agnostics. They are atheists because they do not believe in gods, and agnostics because the acknowledge that they have no way to rule the possibility out, and are willing to change their position to theist if given a rational reason to do so.
None too contradictory or absurd to consider, but some that are too contradictory or absurd to believe. For example, claiming that meekness is a virtue.
How did you determine that?
Thank you for your thought-out reply.
Since my high school English teacher was, in her thinking, an agnostic, then to me being an agnostic would Not make her also an atheist. So, now it seems the modern thinking is being an 'atheist/agnostic' which she wasn't.
A meek person is a humble as opposed to being a haughty person. A mild person without being haughty or vain.
A meek person is a person who can be taught as per Psalms 25:9.
Someone with meekness does Not become heated up with anger - Psalms 37:8-11 - but tries to be calm.
A meek or humble person would Not brag by 'blowing his own horn', so to speak - Proverbs 27:2
To his enemy he would give food and drink as per Proverbs 25:21.
So, to me biblical meekness is a virtue worthy of imitation - Philippians 4:8 - and Not absurd.
How did I determine that ? was from a clipping by a Professor Frantisek Vyskocil who did research in neurophysiology. He got that information from a Russian scientist and professor.
Also, in the book Nanomedicine stated the body is make up of 41 chemical elements as building blocks.
So, what made these life-less building blocks live, or where does the spark of life come from ?
Antony Flew (4/8/2010) concluded that DNA research has shown by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangments which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved.