Although I am loath to categorize any of the ideas on these pages or in the RS discussion groups, the nature of language itself is about relating common concepts through words.  Simply, if we are to write or speak to each other at all, we must have a common language.

Thus it is with some wariness that I post these hopefully common understandings for various words that can be of use to our discussions.  These definitions are of course open to refinement.

Categories of spiritual belief systems

Some definitions from: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from InfoSoft International, Inc. All rights reserved.

Atheism	traditional position: affirms that there never was, is not now, and never will be a God in or beyond the world. moderate position: there is no God, but God's existence cannot be logically or empirically disproven.
Agnosticism	agnostics, unlike atheists, are willing to entertain arguments that God exists.
Solipsism	solipsists maintain that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.