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What has not changed much, though, is the image of the non-theist that [[Madalyn Murray O'Hair|O’Hair]] left in her wake. It’s the image of the atheist out to pick a fight, the unbeliever who is constantly seeking the next debate. As Fidalgo from CFI put it, O’Hair was an “extremely polarizing” figure who “gained visibility for [[American Atheists]] but may have been integral in forming the image of atheism in the U.S. as arrogant.”<ref>[http://religionandpolitics.org/2012/05/24/the-lonely-life-of-american-atheists/ ''The Lonely Life of an American Atheist''] by Alfred Garcia, Religion and Politics</ref>}}
What has not changed much, though, is the image of the non-theist that [[Madalyn Murray O'Hair|O’Hair]] left in her wake. It’s the image of the atheist out to pick a fight, the unbeliever who is constantly seeking the next debate. As Fidalgo from CFI put it, O’Hair was an “extremely polarizing” figure who “gained visibility for [[American Atheists]] but may have been integral in forming the image of atheism in the U.S. as arrogant.”<ref>[http://religionandpolitics.org/2012/05/24/the-lonely-life-of-american-atheists/ ''The Lonely Life of an American Atheist''] by Alfred Garcia, Religion and Politics</ref>}}
== Atheist Jacques Berlinerblau on the American atheist movements ==
''See also:'' [[Atheist movement]]
The atheist Georgetown professor Jacques Berlinerblau declared:
{{cquote|American atheist movements, though fancying themselves a lion, are more like the gimpy little zebra crossing the river full of crocs. In terms of both political gains and popular appeal, nonbelievers in the United States have little to show. They are encircled by cunning, swarming [religious] Revivalist adversaries who know how to play the atheist card. The gimpy zebra remark was a little goofing on this over-the-top chest-thumping that emerges from Movement Atheists. They wildly overestimate their numbers. They tend to overestimate the efficacy of their activism. They underestimate how disciplined and organized their adversaries in the religious right are, too. They fail to recognize that mocking religious people in public is entirely inimical to the goals they wish to achieve."<ref>[http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2012-09/professor-jacques-berlinerblau-tells-atheists-stop-whining Professor Jacques Berlinerblau tells atheists: Stop whining!], Christian Century, Sep 14, 2012 by Kimberly Winston</ref>}}
== Decline in the rate of increase of American 1990s secularism ==
== Decline in the rate of increase of American 1990s secularism ==