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I hope this clarifies the issue of whether Trump has more machismo than Obama.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 10:01, 4 August 2019 (EDT)
I hope this clarifies the issue of whether Trump has more machismo than Obama.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 10:01, 4 August 2019 (EDT)
:By the way, once ObamaCare disappears, Trump's victory over Obama will be complete![[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 10:03, 4 August 2019 (EDT)
:By the way, once ObamaCare disappears, Trump's victory over Obama will be complete![[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 10:03, 4 August 2019 (EDT)
== Atheism and....", etc. The Delaying action ==
=== American atheism: Death by a thousand cuts ===
The ''Merriam Webster Online Dictionary'' defines the military tactic of a [[delaying action]] thusly: "a defensive military action in which advance of an enemy is delayed by fighting as long as possible without the defensive force becoming involved in decisive battle...".<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delaying%20action Delaying Action]</ref>
The famous Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of 7 debates and each debate lasted 3 hours. The debates were between [[Abraham Lincoln]] and Stephan A. Douglas and mostly focused on the issue of [[slavery]].
[[File:Jacques Berlinerblau.jpg|thumbnail|220px|right|In 2011, atheist [[Jacques Berlinerblau]] declared: "The Golden Age of [[Secularism]] has passed."<ref>Berlinerblau, Jacques (February 4, 2011). [http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/obama-at-the-national-prayer-breakfast-raging-christ-fest-secular-wake/31816 "Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast"]. The Chronicle of Higher Education/Brainstorm blog. Retrieved on May 29, 2015.</ref>]]
Given the attention span of today's public, after the launch of the now defunct New Atheism movement, which had some momentum for about 7 years [[Decline of militant atheism in the West|until it imploded]], there never was an extended decisive ideological battle between Christians and atheists. Instead, there were a stream of books, articles, debates, lectures, sermons, podcasts, movies, etc. There was nothing approaching something similar to the Lincoln–Douglas debates. As a result, there was a series of Christian delaying actions which helped weaken the [[atheist movement]] (see: [[Decline of the atheist movement]]). Now, numerous atheists have declared that the "atheist movement is dead" or that it is dying.<ref>
*[https://freethoughtblogs.com/reasoner/2017/10/21/the-atheism-movement-dead-or-alive/ The “Atheism Movement:” Dead or Alive?], [[Freethought Blogs]]
*[http://examiningatheism.blogspot.com/2017/11/seth-andrews-keeps-hearing-reports-of.html Atheist activist Seth Andrews keeps seeing reports on social media and the media that the atheist movement is dying], ''Examining Atheism''
*[http://examiningatheism.blogspot.com/2017/10/now-that-that-poseur-atheist-aron-ra.html Atheist Aron Ra indicates the atheist movement is dead. Now that that Aron Ra has surrendered....], ''[[Examining Atheism]]''
*[http://www.atheistrev.com/2013/12/the-day-atheist-movement-died.html The Day the Atheist Movement Died] by Jack Vance at Atheist Revolution
*[https://twitter.com/jennifurret/status/405391218273554433 Jennifer McCreight on Twitter about the Elevatorgate scandal destroying the atheist movement], [[Jen McCreight]], Twitter</ref>
In 1990, the atheist philosopher [[Michael Martin]] indicated there was a general [[Atheist apologetics|absence of an atheistic response]] to contemporary work in the [[philosophy]] of religion and in jest he indicated that it was his "cross to bear" to respond to [[theism|theistic]] arguments.<ref>''Open Questions: Diverse Thinkers Discuss God, Religion, and Faith'' by Luís F. Rodrigues, page 201</ref> Yet, in 1994, Michael Martin was criticized for his eleventh hour cancellation of his debate with [[Greg Bahnsen]] (see: [[Greg Bahnsen and debate]] and [[Press release after Michael Martin pulled out of Martin-Bahnsen debate|Bahnson-Martin debate press release]]).<ref name="Bahsen at the Stein debate">[http://www.frame-poythress.org/frame_articles/Bahnsen.htm Bahsen at the Stein debate] by John Frame</ref>
At this point, atheism has been effectively rebutted in every conceivable manner or nearly every conceivable manner (see also: [[Rebuttals to atheist arguments]]). [[Conservapedia]] alone has nearly 1,000 articles/essays on atheism covering a wide variety of topics.<ref>[https://www.conservapedia.com/Category:Atheism Conservapedia atheism articles]</ref>