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'''Reddit atheism''', also known as r/[[atheism]], is one of the largest internet groups of atheists.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2013/06/14/reddit-atheism-mods/ Reddit Atheists Have New Leadership After Turbulent Coup]</ref>   

'''Reddit atheism''', also known as r/[[atheism]], is one of the largest internet groups of atheists.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2013/06/14/reddit-atheism-mods/ Reddit Atheists Have New Leadership After Turbulent Coup]</ref>   

Historically, the atheist population has often used mockery as a substitution for reasonable discussion/debate and Reddit atheism is a continuation of this tradition (see: [[Atheism and mockery]]).

Historically, the atheist population has often used mockery as a substitution for reasonable discussion/debate and Reddit atheism is a continuation of this tradition (see: [[Atheism and mockery]]).

== Reddit atheism and their reluctance to engage in offline atheist activism ==

== Reddit atheism and their reluctance to engage in offline atheist activism ==

Atheists have a reputation for apathy and cowardice when it comes to sharing their atheism with others and defending atheism against valid criticism (See:  [[Atheism and apathy]] and [[Atheism and cowardice]]).

Atheists have a reputation for apathy and cowardice when it comes to sharing their atheism with others and defending atheism against valid criticism (See:  [[Atheism and apathy]] and [[Atheism and cowardice]]).

== Reddit atheism, modern atheism and hateful groupthink ==

Beginning in the 1970s and accelerating in 2011 and beyond, atheism, [[agnosticism]] and [[evolution|Darwinism]] have developed a reputation of cowardice. See: [[Atheism and cowardice]] and [[Creation vs. evolution debates|Creation scientists tend to win the creation vs. evolution debates]] and [[Instances of Richard Dawkins ducking debates]]

 

== Reddit post on the mocking of atheism ==

''See also:'' [[Atheism and groupthink]]  

 

The atheist website Nonprophetstatus.com declared concerning Reddit atheism:

{{cquote|Readers familiar with Reddit’s atheism community, r/atheism, may not be surprised to learn that I think it exemplifies many negative aspects of modern atheism — hatred, prejudice, and belief by cultural conformation rather than rational inquiry." <ref>[http://nonprophetstatus.com/2013/06/07/the-implosion-of-ratheism-what-reddit-can-tell-us-about-building-community/]</ref> - Vlad Chituc at Nonprophetstatus.com}}

== Reddit atheists and cowardice ==

''See also:'' [[Atheism and humor]] and [[Mocking of atheism]] and [[Atheism and social outcasts]]

A 2016 Reddit post entitled ''Why is everyone mocking atheism all of a sudden?'' declared: "Now making fun of religion gets you labeled as a neckbeard or edgy, when like 2 years ago atheism was the main driving force of reddit?"<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3wsfhd/why_is_everyone_mocking_atheism_all_of_a_sudden/ ''Why is everyone mocking atheism all of a sudden?''], Reddit post</ref>

 

In May of 2013, Policymic published an article on Reddit atheism entitled ''Reddit Users: Why Atheist Redditors Are Stuck On the Internet'' which declared that Reddit atheists are reluctant to proclaim their atheism offline.<ref>[http://www.policymic.com/articles/41797/reddit-users-why-atheist-redditors-are-stuck-on-the-internet  ''Reddit Users: Why Atheist Redditors Are Stuck On the Internet'']</ref>

 

The  Policymic article declared:

{{cquote|Are we to make [[Atheism and cowardice|cowards]] out of Reddit’s atheists for the discrepancy between the prevalence of real life and internet proclamations of godlessness? Maybe, as the world’s loudest atheist, [[Richard Dawkins]], first bemoaned in his TED talk, “Atheists do not want to be impolite … Can we stop being so damned polite?” Or, as R/atheist stalwart with the username “blackstar9000” explained in a very thoughtful post on the state of the atheist subreddit, “Many of the users are just recently converted, who fear being ostracized by people the religious people who make up their support system.”<ref>[http://www.policymic.com/articles/41797/reddit-users-why-atheist-redditors-are-stuck-on-the-internet  ''Reddit Users: Why Atheist Redditors Are Stuck On the Internet'']</ref>}}

Compared to other worldviews, atheists have the highest losses of individuals leaving their worldview. See: [[Weakness of secularistic upbringing]]

A member of Reddit responded to the post indicating:

{{Cquote|A few years ago r/atheism had a "faces of atheism" campaign where people submitted pictures of themselves with some comment on atheism on them. It was so embarrassing and cringeworthy that the reddit mods removed r/atheism from the frontpage/main reddits because the reputation of the site itself was being tarnished. Since then, people started combining the (already existing) "fat neckbeard" stereotype with atheism and made parodies of the faces of atheism, like some ugly/underage fedora wearer saying cringe stuff like "intellect is my blade" etc.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3wsfhd/why_is_everyone_mocking_atheism_all_of_a_sudden/ ''Why is everyone mocking atheism all of a sudden?''], Reddit post</ref>}}

Beginning in the 1980s and accelerating in 2011 and beyond, atheism, [[agnosticism]] and [[evolution|Darwinism]] have developed a reputation of cowardice. See: [[Atheism and cowardice]] and [[Creation scientists tend to win the creation vs. evolution debates]] and [[Instances of Richard Dawkins ducking debates]]

See also: [[Unattractiveness of atheism]]

== Inability of Reddit atheists to answer the 15 questions for evolutionists ==

== Inability of Reddit atheists to answer the 15 questions for evolutionists ==

*[[Internet atheism]]

*[[Internet atheism]]

*[[Atheists doubting the validity of atheism]]

*[[Atheists doubting the validity of atheism]]