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For further information, please see: [[Essay: PZ Myers embarrasses himself at the Creation Museum|PZ Myers embarrasses himself at the Creation Museum]] and [[Essay: Professor PZ Myers fails his applied biology course|Professor PZ Myers fails his applied biology course]] ]]
For further information, please see: [[Essay: PZ Myers embarrasses himself at the Creation Museum|PZ Myers embarrasses himself at the Creation Museum]] and [[Essay: Professor PZ Myers fails his applied biology course|Professor PZ Myers fails his applied biology course]] ]]
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== User: Conservative proven right again! ==
At the 2018 [[American Atheists]] convention, the ex-president of the American Atheist organization [[David Silverman]] declared:
{{Cquote|It is a hard time to be [[Atheist activist|an atheist activist]]. This has affected us. And it has affected our community...
...it has really affected us. We are suffering a level of [[defeatism]] that I have never seen before...
We feel the loss. And we feel like we have lost. We feel like [[Donald Trump and American atheists|we lost the election]]... We see this cascade of attack coming down at us over and over from all different directions and we feel like it's over. I have heard so many times it makes me sick. It makes me sad. It feels like we lost.
The [[Atheism and apathy|apathy that follows]]. It doesn't matter. We can't win anyways. It's useless to fight. This apathy is infecting us. It's hurting us.
And people are reacting to each other now. And so that is [[Atheist factions|causing a division]]. Lots and lots of division in our movement. Hard, bad division... And that has resulted in a splintering and factioning of the movement that I have never seen before and none of us have.
In other words, '''we're in a bad situation and it's getting worse.''' (bolding added for emphasis).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8VYLMYvImc David Silverman - How the Mighty Get Back Up]</ref>}}
Didn't I tell you that each successive year was going to be the WORST year for atheism? It's coming to pass! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:57, 9 September 2018 (EDT)