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[[File:PzMyers2.jpg|thumbnail|190px|right|The atheist [[PZ Myers]] declared on September 27, 2014, "I will make a prediction, right here and now.... The number of people identifying as atheists will stagnate or even shrink..."<ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/09/27/the-atheist-disillusionment/ ''The Atheist Disillusionment''] by [[PZ Myers]], September 27, 2014</ref> See: [[Desecularization]] and [[Global atheism|Decline of global atheism]] ]]
Dr. J. Gordon Melton said about the '''atheist movement''' (organized atheism) that [[atheism]] is not a movement which tends to create community, but in however near the last few years beginning of the 21st century there has been was some growth of organized atheism.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0i4kuN9XSc Baylor ISR- J. Gordon Melton - End of Religion? (May 5, 2015)]</ref>
However, various schisms occurring within the atheism movement and widespread infighting, has had an adverse effect on various [[atheist organizations]] (See: [[Atheist factions]]). Divisions within the atheist movement have caused a marked decline in the movement (see: [[Decline of the atheist movement]]). For example, atheist organizations have experienced large drops in donations to their organizations (see: [[Atheist fundraising vs. religious fundraising#Atheist organizations and fundraising|Atheist organizations and fundraising]]).