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The atheist Michael Nugent specifically said about PZ Myers dubbing himself the first horseman of the New Atheism movement:
The atheist Michael Nugent specifically said about PZ Myers dubbing himself the first horseman of the New Atheism movement:
{{Cquote|“After that he just got worse and worse, and there seemed to come a point where he decided that the low-level infamy he could glean by slamming and slurring fellow atheists was his best shot at getting attention, since it was becoming really clear that he wasn’t going to make it as any sort of “fifth horseman”. His poor old nag fell at the first fence.”<ref>[http://www.michaelnugent.com/2014/11/04/chronology-of-misrepresentations-and-smears-in-the-atheist-movement-by-pz-myers-and-others/ Chronology of misrepresentations and smears in the atheist movement by PZ Myers and others] by Michael Nugent on November 4, 2014</ref>
{{Cquote|“After that he just got worse and worse, and there seemed to come a point where he decided that the low-level infamy he could glean by slamming and slurring fellow atheists was his best shot at getting attention, since it was becoming really clear that he wasn’t going to make it as any sort of “fifth horseman”. His poor old nag fell at the first fence.”<ref>[http://www.michaelnugent.com/2014/11/04/chronology-of-misrepresentations-and-smears-in-the-atheist-movement-by-pz-myers-and-others/ Chronology of misrepresentations and smears in the atheist movement by PZ Myers and others] by Michael Nugent on November 4, 2014</ref>}}
In 2019, after being mocked for aspiring to be the fifth horseman of the New Atheism movement, Myers wrote:
In 2019, after being mocked for aspiring to be the fifth horseman of the New Atheism movement, Myers wrote: