Figure 8

A taxonomy of religious belief and non-belief. Believers include various kinds of theists (those who personify their gods) and deists (who do not). Non-believers include agnostics (who think it is impossible to decide whether a god exists), what I call ‘allo-theists’ (who believe in gods, only not the ones that others think you should believe in, such as Christians who regard Muslims as infidels and vice versa), non-theists (who unlike agnostics do not think the question of the existence of God is relevant to them), and anti-theists (who are convinced there is no god or gods, and are opposed to religions in general).