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"Suffering and taking sin upon himself might have been right for that preacher of small people [Jesus Christ]. But I rejoice in great sin as my great solace." - Friedrich Nietzsche <ref>[http://atheismexposed.tripod.com/atheist_arrogance.htm Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, In Michael Curtis (Ed.) The Great Political Theories, Vol. 2 (New York: Avon Books, 1962, PP. 261-262). Cited in, Christopher, J.R., G.G, Wittet, Modern Western Civilization. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991, Pages 232, 233]</ref>
"Suffering and taking sin upon himself might have been right for that preacher of small people [Jesus Christ]. But I rejoice in great sin as my great solace." - Friedrich Nietzsche <ref>[http://atheismexposed.tripod.com/atheist_arrogance.htm Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, In Michael Curtis (Ed.) The Great Political Theories, Vol. 2 (New York: Avon Books, 1962, PP. 261-262). Cited in, Christopher, J.R., G.G, Wittet, Modern Western Civilization. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991, Pages 232, 233]</ref>
== Pride of American Atheists leader David Silverman about his substandard book ==
[[File:David Silverman Reason Rally.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|[[David Silverman]] ]]
Despite his books many shortcomings which fellow atheist Vlad Chituc pointed out, [[David Silverman]], the president of the [[American Atheists]], said of his book ''Fighting God'': "...I am very proud of it as you can tell."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HZ0e9N51Q David Silverman : Fighting God]</ref><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>
Fellow atheist Vlad Chituc wrote at the University of Southern California's ''Religious Dispatches'' about Silverman's book containing inaccurate claims:
{{cquote|This leads Silverman to make some wildly inaccurate claims. He argues that more than half of Jews and three-quarters of the rapidly growing religiously unaffiliated are atheists. But according to Pew, only 17% of Jews and 33% of the “nones” say they don’t believe in God. If you want to count the “don’t knows” or “others,” that gets to about 20% and 40%, respectively, at best.
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>}}
Before the book was published, half of the book was about Silverman, but his publisher demanded that the material about Silverman be removed from the book and replaced with material focusing on firebrand atheism.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HZ0e9N51Q David Silverman : Fighting God]</ref>
== Atheist cults and arrogance ==
== Atheist cults and arrogance ==