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→The film documentary The Atheist Delusion features a humorless Richard Dawkins who is the object of audience laughter
Dawkins has encouraged his supporters to ridicule religious believers and to go beyond humorous ridicule.<ref>[https://shadowtolight.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/dawkins-mock-them-ridicule-them-in-public/ Dawkins: Mock them. Ridicule them! In public]</ref> He wrote, "I lately started to think that we need to go further: go beyond humorous ridicule, sharpen our barbs to a point where they really hurt."<ref>[https://shadowtolight.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/dawkins-mock-them-ridicule-them-in-public/ Dawkins: Mock them. Ridicule them! In public]</ref> See also: [[Richard Dawkins' cult of personality]]
Dawkins has encouraged his supporters to ridicule religious believers and to go beyond humorous ridicule.<ref>[https://shadowtolight.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/dawkins-mock-them-ridicule-them-in-public/ Dawkins: Mock them. Ridicule them! In public]</ref> He wrote, "I lately started to think that we need to go further: go beyond humorous ridicule, sharpen our barbs to a point where they really hurt."<ref>[https://shadowtolight.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/dawkins-mock-them-ridicule-them-in-public/ Dawkins: Mock them. Ridicule them! In public]</ref> See also: [[Richard Dawkins' cult of personality]]
=== Accusations that new atheists are self-righteous and tend to lack a sense of humor ===
Gayle Trotter wrote in ''First Things'' about Mary Eberstadt's satirical book on [[New Atheism]]:
Gayle Trotter wrote in ''First Things'' about Mary Eberstadt's satirical book on [[New Atheism]]: