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→Journal of Contemporary Religion on schisms within U.S. atheism
The ''Journal of Contemporary Religion'' say that internal divisions withing the American atheist movement have to do with:
The ''Journal of Contemporary Religion'' say that internal divisions withing the American atheist movement have to do with:
{{Cquote|internal divisions within the movement around issues relating to goals, strategies, and direction. These can be seen most notably in debates about the formation of a collective ‘atheist’ identity, in disputes about the effectiveness of confrontationalism and accommodationism, and in concerns about the movement’s ethnic, racial, and gender profile.<ref>[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537903.2014.945722 Divided We Stand: The Politics of the Atheist Movement in the United States] by Steven Kettell]''Journal of Contemporary Religion'', Volume 29, Issue 3, 2014</ref>}}
{{Cquote|internal divisions within the movement around issues relating to goals, strategies, and direction. These can be seen most notably in debates about the formation of a collective ‘atheist’ identity, in disputes about the effectiveness of confrontationalism and accommodationism, and in concerns about the movement’s ethnic, racial, and gender profile.<ref>[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537903.2014.945722 Divided We Stand: The Politics of the Atheist Movement in the United States] by Steven Kettell]''Journal of Contemporary Religion'', Volume 29, Issue 3, 2014</ref>}}
== American atheism and atheist feminism related online schism ==
''See also:'' [[Atheist factions]] and [[Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence|Atheists and antisocial behavior]]
The forerunner of the feminist [[Atheism plus]] movement was the online [[Elevatorgate]] controversy involving [[New Atheism|new atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]] and feminist [[Rebecca Watson]].
''The Guardian'' wrote about Atheism plus and the reaction of many atheists on the internet:
{{Cquote|In the passionate world of [[American atheism]], the venom usually directed at believers has now been turned against the wrong kind of atheists...
It took 700 years from [[Constantine]] renaming Byzantium in his own honour to papal legates circulating letters of anathema that split the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman]] and [[Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox churches]]. Atheism, in its public, online life, has started exchanging internet anathemas – perhaps we should call them inathemas – in little more than a decade.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/02/american-atheism-schism-spit-venom Is American atheism heading for a schism?] by Peter McGrath, ''The Guardian''</ref>}}
Post Elevatorgate and Atheism plus, the conflict between [[atheist feminism]] and anti-feminism athiests continues. Two of the most anti-feminism atheists are YouTube atheists [[Thunderf00t]] and [[TheAmazingAtheist]].
== Composition and structure of the American atheist movement ==
== Composition and structure of the American atheist movement ==