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[[File:PZ Myers.jpg|thumbnail|220px|right|[[PZ Myers]],
[[File:PZ Myers.jpg|thumbnail|220px|right|[[PZ Myers]],
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In 2013, the atheist [[PZ Myers]] declared:
In 2013, the atheist [[PZ Myers]] declared:
YouTube atheist Dusty Smith says atheist nerds are driving away women from considering the possibility of becoming atheists and this is a very upsetting situation to him.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIlTGmjbxE Atheism needs women]</ref> Dusty Smith also stated that the atheist community needs to be more "cool".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIlTGmjbxE Atheism needs women]</ref>
YouTube atheist Dusty Smith says atheist nerds are driving away women from considering the possibility of becoming atheists and this is a very upsetting situation to him.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIlTGmjbxE Atheism needs women]</ref> Dusty Smith also stated that the atheist community needs to be more "cool".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIlTGmjbxE Atheism needs women]</ref>
See also: [[Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence|Atheism and social skills]]
{{See also|Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence|l1=Atheism and social skills}}
== Atheists as social outcasts in cultures unreceptive to atheism ==
== Atheists as social outcasts in cultures unreceptive to atheism ==
The Christian apologist Michael Caputo wrote:
The Christian apologist Michael Caputo wrote:
{{cquote|Recently the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has published its mammoth study on Religion in America based on 35,000 interviews... According to the Pew Forum a whopping 37% of atheists never marry as opposed to 19% of the American population, 17% of Protestants and 17% of Catholics.<ref>[[http://creation.com/atheism Atheism]</ref>}}
{{cquote|Recently the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has published its mammoth study on Religion in America based on 35,000 interviews... According to the Pew Forum a whopping 37% of atheists never marry as opposed to 19% of the American population, 17% of Protestants and 17% of Catholics.<ref>[http://creation.com/atheism Atheism]</ref>}}
[[Vox Day]] declared that according to the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) "more than half of all atheists and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] don’t get married."(see also: [[Atheism and marriage]]).<ref>[http://creation.com/atheism Atheism]</ref>
[[Vox Day]] declared that according to the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) "more than half of all atheists and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] don’t get married."(see also: [[Atheism and marriage]]).<ref>[http://creation.com/atheism Atheism]</ref>