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Line 12: − Michael Shermer may not be a "enthusiastic Bright" after all, as he stated in 2003 the following: "However, when it became apparent to me that the vast majority of people most likely to fall under the "bright" rubric would not use the label, I became, well, skeptical that it would succeed. For the time being I continue calling myself a skeptic."<ref>http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/12/31/73740/169</ref> Shermer also wrote regarding the Brights movement the following: "The reaction was swift and merciless—almost no one, including and especially nonbelievers, agnostics, atheists, humanists, and free thinkers, liked the name, insisting that its elitist implications, along with the natural antonym “dim,” would doom us as a movement."<ref>http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-01-05.html</ref>+
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Atheist author and columnist [[Christopher Hitchens]] expressed his "annoyance at Professor Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, for their cringe-making proposal that atheists should conceitedly nominate themselves to be called "brights".<ref>http://www.slate.com/id/2165033/entry/2165035/</ref>
Atheist author and columnist [[Christopher Hitchens]] expressed his "annoyance at Professor Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, for their cringe-making proposal that atheists should conceitedly nominate themselves to be called "brights".<ref>http://www.slate.com/id/2165033/entry/2165035/</ref>
[[Image:GaryDeMar_main.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|[[Gary DeMar]]]]
[[Image:GaryDeMar_main.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|[[Gary DeMar]]]]
The Brights Movement has not been immune from religious [[conservative]]s' criticism. [[Gary Demar]] the President of [[American Vision]] wrote the following:
The Brights Movement has not been immune from religious [[conservative]]s' criticism. [[Gary Demar]] the President of [[American Vision]] wrote the following: