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''Christianity Today'' wrote about Elmina Slenker in an article entitled ''A Portrait of America’s First Atheists'':

''Christianity Today'' wrote about Elmina Slenker in an article entitled ''A Portrait of America’s First Atheists'':

{{Cquote|When a village did manage to raise an atheist, it was almost always a boy. In his lively, informative study, Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation (Princeton University Press), historian Leigh Eric Schmidt includes a chapter on Elmina Drake Slenker, a 19th-century woman from Upstate New York. Many readers today disapprove of books solely about men, but organized atheism hasn’t always been terribly concerned with gender parity. Slenker confessed that every place she went, she was the first woman atheist anyone there had ever seen. When the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (4As) surveyed its membership in 1930, it was 93 percent male.<ref>[A Portrait of America’s First Atheists] by Timothy Larsen, Christianity Today, August 22, 2016</ref>}}

{{Cquote|When a village did manage to raise an atheist, it was almost always a boy. In his lively, informative study, Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation (Princeton University Press), historian Leigh Eric Schmidt includes a chapter on Elmina Drake Slenker, a 19th-century woman from Upstate New York. Many readers today disapprove of books solely about men, but [[Atheist movement|organized atheism]] hasn’t always been terribly concerned with gender parity. Slenker confessed that every place she went, she was the first woman atheist anyone there had ever seen. When the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (4As) surveyed its membership in 1930, it was 93 percent male.<ref>[A Portrait of America’s First Atheists] by Timothy Larsen, Christianity Today, August 22, 2016</ref>}}

== Books ==

== Books ==