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In the community of skeptics, this rift is filled with lava: there is an incredibly intense animosity between those on different sides, and the divide seems impossible to cross.<ref>[https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/08/17/skepticon-the-rifts-are-full-of-lava/ Skepticon: the rifts are full of lava!] by PZ Myers</ref>}}

In the community of skeptics, this rift is filled with lava: there is an incredibly intense animosity between those on different sides, and the divide seems impossible to cross.<ref>[https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/08/17/skepticon-the-rifts-are-full-of-lava/ Skepticon: the rifts are full of lava!] by PZ Myers</ref>}}

[[File:PzMyers2.jpg|thumbnail|201px|right|[[PZ Myers]] declared, "...I don’t object to [[bestiality]] in a very limited set of specific conditions...".<ref name="achilles">[http://templestream.blogspot.com/2012/08/atheist-achilles-heels-objective.html Atheist Achilles Heels: Objective Morality and Sacred Life]</ref><ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/22/the-objective-morality-gotcha/ The “objective morality” gotcha]</ref> See also: [[Atheism and bestiality]]]]

[[File:PzMyers2.jpg|thumbnail|201px|right|[[PZ Myers]] declared, "...I don’t object to [[bestiality]] in a very limited set of specific conditions...".<ref name="achilles">[http://templestream.blogspot.com/2012/08/atheist-achilles-heels-objective.html Atheist Achilles Heels: Objective Morality and Sacred Life]</ref><ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/22/the-objective-morality-gotcha/ The “objective morality” gotcha]</ref> See also: [[Atheism and bestiality]]]]

The [[Shadow To Light blog]] declares about the [[Mythcon 2017 Conference]]:

The [[Shadow To Light blog]] declares about the [[Mythcon 2017 Conference]]:

{{Cquote|The atheist activists are at each other’s throats again.  Shockingly, it involves another one of their conferences – the Mythicist Milwaukee conference.  If you have never heard of this conference before, it’s safe to say you are not alone.  It sounds like another one of those atheist meet-ups  that’s about one step above a Furry convention, yet two steps below a Trekkie convention.

{{Cquote|The atheist activists are at each other’s throats again.  Shockingly, it involves another one of their conferences – the Mythicist Milwaukee conference.  If you have never heard of this conference before, it’s safe to say you are not alone.  It sounds like another one of those atheist meet-ups  that’s about one step above a Furry convention, yet two steps below a Trekkie convention.

Well, one thing led to another, and next thing y’know,  activist Steve Shives  renounced all friendship with activist [[Seth Andrews]] (the Thnking Atheist) because Andrews refused not to attend.  [[Hemant Mehta]], The Friendly Atheist, is MIA.<ref>[https://shadowtolight.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/the-atheist-movement-becomes-the-atheist-circus/ The Atheist Movement Becomes The Atheist Circus]</ref>}}

Well, one thing led to another, and next thing y’know,  activist Steve Shives  renounced all friendship with activist [[Seth Andrews]] (the Thnking Atheist) because Andrews refused not to attend.  [[Hemant Mehta]], The Friendly Atheist, is MIA.<ref>[https://shadowtolight.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/the-atheist-movement-becomes-the-atheist-circus/ The Atheist Movement Becomes The Atheist Circus]</ref>}}

=== Thomas Smith vs. Carl Benjamin exchange at the Mythcon 2017 Conference ===

==== Thomas Smith vs. Carl Benjamin exchange at the Mythcon 2017 Conference ====

 

=== Thomas Smith vs. Carl Benjamin exchange at the Mythcon 2017 Conference ===

*[[Mythcon 2017 Conference#Christian commentary on the Thomas Smith vs. Carl Benjamin exchange|Christian commentary on the Thomas Smith vs. Carl Benjamin exchange]]

*[[Mythcon 2017 Conference#Christian commentary on the Thomas Smith vs. Carl Benjamin exchange|Christian commentary on the Thomas Smith vs. Carl Benjamin exchange]]