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→Far smaller turnout than Reason Rally 2012
No official crowd estimates have been released. But even in the early afternoon, when the crowd was likely at its peak, nothing I saw suggested “[http://religionnews.com/2016/06/04/atheists-gather-on-the-mall-to-demonstrate-their-political-muscle/ 15,000 to 20,000]” in attendance, as the organizers told Religion News Service. I’d put the range at about half of that, but we’ll see.</ref>}}
No official crowd estimates have been released. But even in the early afternoon, when the crowd was likely at its peak, nothing I saw suggested “[http://religionnews.com/2016/06/04/atheists-gather-on-the-mall-to-demonstrate-their-political-muscle/ 15,000 to 20,000]” in attendance, as the organizers told Religion News Service. I’d put the range at about half of that, but we’ll see.</ref>}}
YouTube atheist [[Thunderfoot]] said about the [[atheist movement]] after Reason Rally 2016 had a very low turnout:
{{Cquote|I'm not sure there is anything in this movement worth saving. Hitchens is dead. [[Richard Dawkins|Dawkins]] simply doesn't have the energy for this sort of thing anymore. [[Sam Harris|Harris]] went his own way. And Denton just kind of blended into the background. So what do you think when the largest gathering of the nonreligious in history pulls in... I don't know. Maybe 2,000 people. Is there anything worth saving?<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/even-atheists-bash-reason-rally/ Even atheists bash 'Reason Rally']</ref>}}
== Reason Rally 2016 speakers and lack of satisfactory diversity ==
== Reason Rally 2016 speakers and lack of satisfactory diversity ==