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== American atheists and loneliness ==

== American atheists and loneliness ==

[[File:PzMyers2.jpg|thumbnail|251px|right|The American atheist [[PZ Myers]] declared, "...I don’t object to [[bestiality]] in a very limited set of specific conditions..."<ref name="achilles">[http://templestream.blogspot.com/2012/08/atheist-achilles-heels-objective.html Atheist Achilles Heels: Objective Morality and Sacred Life]</ref><ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/22/the-objective-morality-gotcha/ The “objective morality” gotcha]</ref> See: [[Atheism and bestiality]]

[[File:PZ Myers.jpg|thumbnail|251px|right|The American atheist [[PZ Myers]] declared, "...I don’t object to [[bestiality]] in a very limited set of specific conditions..."<ref name="achilles">[http://templestream.blogspot.com/2012/08/atheist-achilles-heels-objective.html Atheist Achilles Heels: Objective Morality and Sacred Life]</ref><ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/22/the-objective-morality-gotcha/ The “objective morality” gotcha]</ref> See: [[Atheism and bestiality]]

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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>}}

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== American atheist activists exaggerating the number of atheists in the United States ==

== American atheist activists exaggerating the number of atheists in the United States ==