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The significant amount of unpleasant personalities within the [[Atheist Population|atheist population]] and the resulting amount of atheist infighting has made atheist community unattractive to many people who are looking for a sense of community and/or a common cause (see: [[Atheist factions]] and [[Views on atheists]]).<ref>[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100230985/how-atheists-became-the-most-colossally-smug-and-annoying-people-on-the-planet/ Brendan O'Neill, ''The Telegraph, How atheists became the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet'',  August 14th, 2013]</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/22/is-atheism-a-religion/atheism-cannot-replace-religion Atheism cannot replace religion]</ref>  For more information please see: [[Unattractiveness of atheism]] and [[Hopelessness of atheism]]

The significant amount of unpleasant personalities within the [[Atheist Population|atheist population]] and the resulting amount of atheist infighting has made atheist community unattractive to many people who are looking for a sense of community and/or a common cause (see: [[Atheist factions]] and [[Views on atheists]]).<ref>[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100230985/how-atheists-became-the-most-colossally-smug-and-annoying-people-on-the-planet/ Brendan O'Neill, ''The Telegraph, How atheists became the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet'',  August 14th, 2013]</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/22/is-atheism-a-religion/atheism-cannot-replace-religion Atheism cannot replace religion]</ref>  For more information please see: [[Unattractiveness of atheism]] and [[Hopelessness of atheism]]

== Atheists as social outcasts ==

== Atheists as social outcasts in cultures not receptive to atheism ==

''See also:'' [[Atheism and social outcasts]]

''See also:'' [[Atheism and social outcasts]]

As noted above, according to the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) "more than half of all atheists and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] don’t get married."(see also: [[Atheism and marriage]]).<ref>[http://creation.com/atheism Atheism]</ref>  

As noted above, according to the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) "more than half of all atheists and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] don’t get married."(see also: [[Atheism and marriage]]).<ref>[http://creation.com/atheism Atheism]</ref>  

The contrarian blog Half-Sigma declared:

The American contrarian blog Half-Sigma declared:

{{cquote|...atheists are most likely to live alone.

{{cquote|...atheists are most likely to live alone.