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Atheists on the left end of the spectrum have made various attempts to portray atheists as an oppressed minority, but this has not mitigated the low opinion and/or antipathy many theists holds towards atheists for multiple reasons.

Atheists on the left end of the spectrum have made various attempts to portray atheists as an oppressed minority, but this has not mitigated the low opinion and/or antipathy many theists holds towards atheists for multiple reasons.

First, the atheist population in the [[Western World]] is skewed towards white, atheist men in both adherents and positions of influence within the atheist community (see: [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Atheism and women]]). So it is difficult to portray atheists as an oppressed minority.  

First, the atheist population in the [[Western World]] is skewed towards white, atheist men in both adherents and positions of influence within the atheist community (see: [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Atheism and women]]). So it is difficult for atheists to portray themselves as an oppressed minority.  

Secondly, historically atheists have often used oppressive governmental actions to promote their ideology/[[Atheist worldview|worldview]] (see:  [[Militant atheism]] and [[Suppression of alternatives to evolution]] and [[Atheism and Mass Murder|Atheism and mass murder]]).  

Secondly, historically atheists have often used oppressive governmental actions to promote their ideology/[[Atheist worldview|worldview]] (see:  [[Militant atheism]] and [[Suppression of alternatives to evolution]] and [[Atheism and Mass Murder|Atheism and mass murder]]).