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For more information please see: [http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/atheism-and-unstable-relationships.html Atheist leaders and immoral relationships]

=== Atheism websites and polyamory ===

== New Atheism and lack of successors to Richard Dawkins ==

''See also:''  [[Atheism and the internet]] and [[Internet atheism and obesity]] and [[Internet atheism and polyamory]]

[[Image:Th2-full.jpg‎|right|thumbnail|right|150px|In 2007, Dr. Theo Hobson wrote that [[atheism]] is "pretentious and cowardly".<ref>[http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/theo_hobson/2007/06/atheism_is_pretentious_and_cow.html Atheism is pretentious and cowardly] by Dr. Theo Hobson</ref> See also: [[Atheism and cowardice]]]]

[[New Atheism]] is a form of [[militant atheism]] in terms of its [[rhetoric]].

=== Polyskeptic.com and polyamory ===

The term New Atheism, which first appeared in the November 2006 edition of ''Wired'' magazine, is frequently applied to a movement spawned by a series of six best-selling books by five authors that appeared in the period between 2004–2008. These authors include  [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Christopher Hitchens]], [[Sam Harris]], [[Daniel Dennett]] and [[Victor J. Stenger]].<ref>http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/battle.html</ref>

{{cquote|On June 13, 2012, an advocate of the [[Question evolution! campaign]] wrote:

{{Cquote|The [[Atheism|atheist]] spring that began just over a decade ago is over, thank [[God]]. Richard Dawkins is now seen by many, even many non-believers, as a joke figure...

Atheism is still with us. But the movement that threatened to form has petered out. Crucially, atheism’s younger advocates are reluctant to compete for the role of Dawkins’s disciple. They are more likely to bemoan the new atheist approach and call for large injections of nuance. A good example is the pop-philosopher Julian Baggini. He is a stalwart atheist who likes a bit of a scrap with believers, but he’s also able to admit that religion has its virtues, that humanism needs to learn from it. For example, he has observed that a sense of gratitude is problematically lacking in secular culture, and suggested that humanists should consider ritual practices such as fasting.<ref>[http://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/04/after-the-new-atheism/ Richard Dawkins has lost: meet the new new atheists] by Theo Hobson</ref>}}

 

Blogspot.com, where this Question Evolution! Campaign blog is hosted, has a statistics feature which among other things gives the total views of a blog in a given day. For the day of 5/13/12 (which is the last full day that blogspot.com has statistics for) this blog received 1,202 total views according to blogspot.com.

 

This Question evolution! blog, which has not yet been heavily promoted, has an Alexa traffic rank of 2,178,256 as of June 14, 2012. The website Polyskeptic.com has an Alexa traffic rank of 2,276,133 as of June 14, 2012.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/atheism-and-unstable-relationships.html Atheist leaders and immoral relationships]</ref>}}

 

 

The website Atheist Nexus bills itself as "The World’s Largest Coalition of Nontheists and Nontheist Communities."<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/atheism-and-unstable-relationships.html Atheist leaders and immoral relationships]</ref> As of June 14, 2012, the website Atheist Nexus had an entire group devoted to polyamory.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/atheism-and-unstable-relationships.html Atheist leaders and immoral relationships]</ref>

 

 

The website [[Wikipedia]] was founded by the atheist [[Jimmy Wales]] and the agnostic Larry Sanger. Wikipedia has a pro-atheism/evolution slant.

 

For example, the current Wikipedia article on atheism is very flattering to atheism. As of June 14, 2012 the Wikipedia atheism article does not explicitly mention the tens of millions who died under atheist [[communism|communist]] regimes although it does allude to it. Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to communism is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/atheism-and-unstable-relationships.html Atheist leaders and immoral relationships]</ref>  In addition, as of June 14, 2012, Wikipedia had no article on [[militant atheism]] and deleted its article written on militant atheism.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/atheism-and-unstable-relationships.html Atheist leaders and immoral relationships]</ref>

 

As of June 14, 2012 Wikipedia had this flattering description of polyamory:

{{cquote|Polyamory, often abbreviated as poly, is often described as consensual, ethical, or responsible non-monogamy. The word is sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to sexual or romantic relationships that are not sexually exclusive, though there is disagreement on how broadly it applies; an emphasis on ethics, honesty, and transparency all around is widely regarded as the crucial defining characteristic.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/atheism-and-unstable-relationships.html Atheist leaders and immoral relationships]</ref>}}

== See also ==

== See also ==