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::In 2011, two events happened: [[Elevatorgate]] and the British Humanism Association backing out of their debate with [[William Lane Craig]] (see: [[Atheism and cowardice]]). Both of these events potended US/UK atheism possibly peaking soon. Also, Brexit/Trump were probably disasters for the secular left - especially if Trump is re-elected.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:55, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::In 2011, two events happened: [[Elevatorgate]] and the British Humanism Association backing out of their debate with [[William Lane Craig]] (see: [[Atheism and cowardice]]). Both of these events potended US/UK atheism possibly peaking soon. Also, Brexit/Trump were probably disasters for the secular left - especially if Trump is re-elected.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:55, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:::You wrote: "We need to display Ace gagged and bound on a float in our triumphal march!"
:::Actually, if you go to [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rationalwiki.org page on RW] and look at their referral traffic from other websites other than Google, it is certainly possible that fairly often they are preaching to the secular leftist choir and often serving as an echo chamber. On the other hand, Conservapedia's referral traffic from websites from other websites which can be see at [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/conservapedia.com CP Alexa], indicates Conservapedia's traffic from other websites other than Google is from the far/center left websites. I do know that before Richard Dawkins was essentially stripped of his public influence by feminists, Ms. Magazine quoted Conservapedia indicating that most of Richard Dawkins' website traffic was from males. In addition, Conservapedia's articles demonstrating that women are often treated badly by males atheists received a notable amount of traffic. So perhaps, Conservapedia helped stoke anti-Dawkins feminist animus prior to him making his [[Elevatorgate]] gaffe that greatly inflamed feminists against him. Elevatorgate played a huge role in causing the death/decline of the atheist movement.
:::In addition, a lot of Conservapedia's web traffic comes from the USA. When you look at [https://examiningatheism.blogspot.com/2018/09/2018-american-atheists-convention.html this excerpt from the speech of the 2018 American Atheists convention] and see that survey data from the last 10 years or so indicates that American's negative view of atheists have sharpened, it could be argued that Conservapedia has had a deleterious/negative effect on American atheism (and perhaps other areas as well). Of course, it could also be argued that Trump's election and the obnoxiousness of New Atheists mainly caused these situations. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 11:33, 17 April 2019 (EDT)