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We will just to just wait and see how Penn Jillette responds, for now let us spread the word about this challenge.
We will just to just wait and see how Penn Jillette responds, for now let us spread the word about this challenge.
<ref>[http://www.examiner.com/messianic-jewish-in-national/will-atheist-penn-jillette-debate-christian-sye-ten-bruggencate Will atheist Penn Jillette debate Christian Sye Ten Bruggencate?]</ref>}}
<ref>[http://www.examiner.com/messianic-jewish-in-national/will-atheist-penn-jillette-debate-christian-sye-ten-bruggencate Will atheist Penn Jillette debate Christian Sye Ten Bruggencate?]</ref>}}
== Reddit atheism and cowardice ==
''See also:'' [[Reddit atheism]]
In May of 2013, Policymic published an article on [[Reddit atheism]] entitled ''Reddit Users: Why Atheist Redditors Are Stuck On the Internet'' which declared that Reddit atheists are reluctant to proclaim their atheism offline.<ref>[http://www.policymic.com/articles/41797/reddit-users-why-atheist-redditors-are-stuck-on-the-internet ''Reddit Users: Why Atheist Redditors Are Stuck On the Internet'']</ref>
The Policymic article declared:
{{cquote|Are we to make cowards out of Reddit’s atheists for the discrepancy between the prevalence of real life and internet proclamations of godlessness? Maybe, as the world’s loudest atheist, Richard Dawkins, first bemoaned in his TED talk, “Atheists do not want to be impolite … Can we stop being so damned polite?” Or, as R/atheist stalwart with the username “blackstar9000” explained in a very thoughtful post on the state of the atheist subreddit, “Many of the users are just recently converted, who fear being ostracized by people the religious people who make up their support system.”<ref>[http://www.policymic.com/articles/41797/reddit-users-why-atheist-redditors-are-stuck-on-the-internet ''Reddit Users: Why Atheist Redditors Are Stuck On the Internet'']</ref>}}
Beginning in the 1980s and accelerating in 2011 and beyond, atheism, [[agnosticism]] and [[evolution|Darwinism]] have developed a reputation of cowardice. See: [[Atheism and cowardice]] and [[Creation scientists tend to win the creation vs. evolution debates]] and [[Instances of Richard Dawkins ducking debates]]
== New Atheism and hypocritical cowardice ==
== New Atheism and hypocritical cowardice ==