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I have a revelation to share. I never promised to be a politically left-leaning agnostic/atheist. So there was no betrayal. One of the signs of adulthood is that you realize that people are very autonomous so you have little control over others. Unfortunately, a childish British agnostic doesn't realize this yet.  

I have a revelation to share. I never promised to be a politically left-leaning agnostic/atheist. So there was no betrayal. One of the signs of adulthood is that you realize that people are very autonomous so you have little control over others. Unfortunately, a childish British agnostic doesn't realize this yet.  

And if anything, his objection to the large amount of web content that I created on atheism is rather ironic. Looking back, I probably created more content on atheism than I otherwise would have created due to a certain website cyber harassing me and not accepting my offers of detente. One of the ramifications of not realizing that people are very autonomous and that you don't have a lot of control over people is that you fail to take into account that people can fire back in response to aggression. There is a song written by Jim Croce called, "You don't mess around with Jim" that advises not to "tug on Superman's cape". While I am not Superman by any stretch of the imagination, I do have some skills when it comes to driving web traffic to websites that I can apply to Conservapedia and the other innumerable websites on the internet. And I am a pretty resourceful person. And so it was rather dumb for some secular leftists to pick a fight with me. Did I have an effect on public opinion? Perhaps I did. For example, before the [[Elevatorgate]] controversy that involved [[Richard Dawkins]] vs. feminists (that helped kill the atheist movement), ''Ms. Magazine'' quoted Conservapedia on how most of the web traffic going to Dawkins' website was from males. In addition, survey data collected in 2014 shows that, compared to data collected in 2003, Americans sharpened their negative views of atheists.[https://web.archive.org/web/20161017182107/http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2016/09/study-atheists-remain-the-most-disliked-religious-minority-in-the-u-s/] And I created a very large amount of web content on atheism between 2003 to 2013 and those articles got millions of page views.  

And if anything, his objection to the large amount of web content that I created on atheism is rather ironic. Looking back, I probably created more content on atheism than I otherwise would have created due to a certain website cyber harassing me and not accepting my offers of detente. One of the ramifications of not realizing that people are very autonomous and that you don't have a lot of control over people is that you fail to take into account that people can fire back in response to aggression. There is a song written by Jim Croce called, "You don't mess around with Jim" that advises not to "tug on Superman's cape". While I am not Superman by any stretch of the imagination, I do have some skills when it comes to driving web traffic to websites that I can apply to Conservapedia and the other innumerable websites on the internet. And I am a pretty resourceful person. And so it was rather dumb for some secular leftists to pick a fight with me. Did I have an effect on public opinion? Perhaps I did. For example, before the [[Elevatorgate]] controversy that involved [[Richard Dawkins]] vs. feminists (that helped kill the atheist movement), ''Ms. Magazine'' quoted Conservapedia on how most of the web traffic going to Dawkins' website was from males. In addition, survey data collected in 2014 shows that, compared to data collected in 2003, Americans sharpened their negative views of atheists.[https://web.archive.org/web/20161017182107/http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2016/09/study-atheists-remain-the-most-disliked-religious-minority-in-the-u-s/] And I created a very large amount of web content on atheism between 2003 to 2013 and those articles got millions of page views. On the other hand, if Americans sharpened their views against atheists, maybe it was solely due to many New Atheists being overly aggressive and rude people. We live in a multivariable world so it difficult to say how much or little my web content on atheism had. With that being said, my web content on atheism is well-supported and well-cited and some atheists have admitted this fact.  

But sometimes a certain amount of conflict can have good effects. For example, thanks to a recent User: Conservative vs. RW User: AceMcWicked battle, I did some research into how much Google traffic that atheist websites are getting and found a recent big downturn due to the pandemic and so I created the [[Atheism and the coronavirus pandemic]] and updated Conservapedia's [[Internet atheism]] and [[Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists]] articles. In addition, I started to think more about the various reasons why internet Christianity was doing so much better than internet atheism. And so I created the [[Internet outreach and the Matthew effect: Atheist websites vs. religious websites]].  

But sometimes a certain amount of conflict can have good effects. For example, thanks to a recent User: Conservative vs. RW User: AceMcWicked battle, I did some research into how much Google traffic that atheist websites are getting and found a recent big downturn due to the pandemic and so I created the [[Atheism and the coronavirus pandemic]] and updated Conservapedia's [[Internet atheism]] and [[Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists]] articles. In addition, I started to think more about the various reasons why internet Christianity was doing so much better than internet atheism. And so I created the [[Internet outreach and the Matthew effect: Atheist websites vs. religious websites]].  

With that being said, in retrospect, knowing what I know about marketing and societies, I should have realized that [[New Atheism]] (And its attendant relatively short-lived [[atheist movement]]. See: [[Decline of the atheist movement]]) was a marketing campaign driven fad and that all fads die rather quickly. Atheism is old and there was very little new about New Atheism which was driven by a publicity/marketing campaign centered around some books written by Richard Dawkins, Christoper Hitchens, etc. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 11:58, July 31, 2022 (EDT)

With that being said, in retrospect, knowing what I know about marketing and societies, I should have realized that [[New Atheism]] (And its attendant relatively short-lived [[atheist movement]]. See: [[Decline of the atheist movement]]) was a marketing campaign driven fad and that all fads die rather quickly. Atheism is old and there was very little new about New Atheism which was driven by a publicity/marketing campaign centered around some books written by Richard Dawkins, Christoper Hitchens, etc. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 11:58, July 31, 2022 (EDT)