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Most atheists are apathetic about their atheism (see: [[Atheism and apathy]]).
Most atheists are apathetic about their atheism (see: [[Atheism and apathy]]).
At the 2018 [[American Atheists]] convention, the ex-president of the American Atheist organization [[David Silverman]] declared:
{{Cquote|It is a hard time to be an atheist activist. This has affected us. And it has affected our community...
...it has really affected us. We are suffering a level of [[defeatism]] that I have never seen before.
We feel the loss. We feel like we have lost... We see this cascade of attack coming down at us over and over from all different directions and we feel like it's over. I have heard so many times it makes me sick. It makes me sad. It feels like we lost.
The [[Atheism and apathy|apathy that follows]]. It doesn't matter. We can't win anyways. It's useless to fight. This apathy is infecting us. It's hurting us.
And people are reacting to each other now. And so that is [[Atheist factions|causing a division]]. Lots and lots of division in our movement. Hard, bad division... And that has resulted in a splintering and factioning of the movement that I have never seen before and none of us have.
In other words, we're in a bad situation and it's getting worse.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8VYLMYvImc David Silverman - How the Mighty Get Back Up]</ref>}}
In the [[United States]], from 2006 to 2016, Americans sharpened their negative views towards atheists (see: [[Views on atheists]]).<ref>[http://cla.umn.edu/news-events/news/atheists-remain-most-disliked-religious-minority-us Atheists Remain Most Disliked Religious Minority in the US]</ref>
In the [[United States]], from 2006 to 2016, Americans sharpened their negative views towards atheists (see: [[Views on atheists]]).<ref>[http://cla.umn.edu/news-events/news/atheists-remain-most-disliked-religious-minority-us Atheists Remain Most Disliked Religious Minority in the US]</ref>