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→David Silverman is purposefully being deceptive and he broke his promise to be accurate
These are not small discrepancies, and based on these falsely inflated statistics, Silverman makes startlingly inaccurate claims, like that there are 80 million atheists in the U.S., a full 26% of the country....To make things frustratingly worse, other atheists have been calling Silverman out for falsely inflating the number of atheists for [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/08/07/fact-check-please/ more than four years]. And last year, I specifically asked Silverman if he would stop reporting the stats on “nones” as being representative of atheism, and he [https://twitter.com/MrAtheistPants/status/581206498258325504 told me he would]. Yet here we are.<ref>[http://religiondispatches.org/how-not-to-defend-atheism/ How Not To Defend Atheism] by Vlad Chituc, University of Southern California's ''Religious Dispatches'', 2015</ref>}}
These are not small discrepancies, and based on these falsely inflated statistics, Silverman makes startlingly inaccurate claims, like that there are 80 million atheists in the U.S., a full 26% of the country....To make things frustratingly worse, other atheists have been calling Silverman out for falsely inflating the number of atheists for [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/08/07/fact-check-please/ more than four years]. And last year, I specifically asked Silverman if he would stop reporting the stats on “nones” as being representative of atheism, and he [https://twitter.com/MrAtheistPants/status/581206498258325504 told me he would]. Yet here we are.<ref>[http://religiondispatches.org/how-not-to-defend-atheism/ How Not To Defend Atheism] by Vlad Chituc, University of Southern California's ''Religious Dispatches'', 2015</ref>}}
Despite the books many shortcomings, [[David Silverman]] said of his book ''Fighting God'': "...I am very proud of it as you can tell." (See: [[Atheism and arrogance]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HZ0e9N51Q David Silverman : Fighting God]</ref>
Despite the books many shortcomings, David Silverman said of his book ''Fighting God'': "...I am very proud of it as you can tell." (See: [[Atheism and arrogance]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HZ0e9N51Q David Silverman : Fighting God]</ref>
For more information, please see: [[American atheism]]
For more information, please see: [[American atheism]]