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In addition, a December 2015 video entitled ''How [[Feminism]] destroyed '[[New Atheism]]''', YouTube atheist/evolutionist [[Thunderf00t]] pointed out that merely 2 out of 7 YouTube atheist/evolutionist channels that he plugged in the past are now active.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emrD6hTKkIY How Feminism destroyed 'New Atheism']</ref> | In addition, a December 2015 video entitled ''How [[Feminism]] destroyed '[[New Atheism]]''', YouTube atheist/evolutionist [[Thunderf00t]] pointed out that merely 2 out of 7 YouTube atheist/evolutionist channels that he plugged in the past are now active.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emrD6hTKkIY How Feminism destroyed 'New Atheism']</ref> | ||
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+ | In 2017, YouTube atheist/skeptic videos began another period of significant decline in terms of views.<ref>[https://osf.io/73jys/ A Supply and Demand Framework for YouTube Politics] by Kevin Munger & Joseph Phillips. Penn State Political Science, October 1, 2019, See page 23</ref><ref>[https://examiningatheism.blogspot.com/2019/10/you-tube-atheistskeptic-videos-see.html You Tube atheist/skeptic videos see a decline in views from 2017 to present]</ref> | ||
== Atheist PZ Myers says atheists are largely a population of internet nerds and geeks == | == Atheist PZ Myers says atheists are largely a population of internet nerds and geeks == |
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In the early part of the 21st century, atheists were very active on the internet.[1] However, by 2008 there began a marked decline in internet atheism (see: Internet atheism web traffic volume).[2]
One of the reasons why some atheist participate in internet atheism is that offline participation in the atheist community is often difficult.[3]
In an essay entitled How the Atheist Movement Failed Me, an atheist woman noted that participation in the atheist community is often expensive due to the cost of attending atheist conferences and even local atheist meetings in restaurants and bars challenged her modest budget.[3] As a result of the challenges that atheists commonly have in terms of socializing in person, many atheists turn to the internet in terms of communicating with other atheists.
In addition, Conatus News indicates:
“ | The overwhelming anti-atheist sentiment in society means most don’t feel comfortable outwardly proclaiming their lack of faith. So instead of congregating in a large building on Sunday, many atheists have found their own community online.
This societal stigma is certainly part of the reason atheists seem so drawn to internet interactions. Anonymity, or at least the safety of separation from those around you, provides the ability to truly speak one’s mind.[4] |
” |
Numerous atheists have declared that the "atheist movement is dead" or that it is dying (see: Decline of the atheist movement).[5] In 2019, a writer at Freethought Blogs wrote: "Last month I looked at some postmortems of the atheist movement...".[6] See also: Morale of the atheist movement
Division is widespread among atheists (see: Atheist factions).
Atheism tends not to create community and most atheists are apathetic (See: Atheism and apathy and Atheism and loneliness).
Christian organizations have been significantly more successful than atheist organizations as far as evangelizing via the internet (see: Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists).
Contents
- 1 Internet atheism web traffic levels
- 2 Atheist feminism related online schism
- 3 Percentage of atheists in the world is shrinking while world internet usage is expanding
- 4 Google trends graphs: Search of atheism/agnosticism related terms
- 5 Elevatorgate and Richard Dawkins' loss of online influence
- 6 Freethought Blogs
- 7 Sam Harris' website and its drop in global market share accoring to Alexa
- 8 Global market share of Skepchick website according to Alexa
- 9 The Orbit
- 10 Reddit atheism
- 11 YouTube atheism/evolutionism
- 12 Atheist PZ Myers says atheists are largely a population of internet nerds and geeks
- 13 Christian websites with a large focus on the topic of atheism
- 14 Website with a main focus on criticizing atheism by not a Christian website
- 15 Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists
- 16 Atheist trolls
- 17 YouTube atheist TheAmazingAtheist on rape
- 18 Atheism websites and polyamory
- 19 Internet atheism and profanity
- 20 Internet atheism and quarrelsome atheists
- 21 Internet atheism and obesity
- 22 American Atheists website
- 23 Videos on atheism
- 24 Social media and social ostracism of atheists in religious societies
- 25 Atheist deconversion stories and the internet
- 26 See also
- 27 External links
- 28 References
Internet atheism web traffic levels
See: Internet atheism web traffic volume
During the period of 2008 to 2012, the atheist community made a concerted effort to spread atheism through means of the internet. However, leading atheist websites saw plunges in web traffic during the latter period of this time.[2]
In 2016, an article entitled 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism featured Alexa web traffic graphs which indicated that some prominent atheist websites lost a significant portion of their global market share.[7] Since 2012, Freethought Blogs (a collection of atheist bloggers) saw a significant decline in its web traffic.[8]
An article entitled Internet atheism: The thrill is gone! declares:
“ | In 2007, the Bible believer Chuck Norris noted that atheists were making a concerted effort to spread atheism via the internet. As you you will soon see via the graphs below, it has been an abysmal failure! The atheist community flooded the internet with a lot of shallow, ill-reasoned fluff that many in the public quickly dismissed.[9] | ” |
For more information see: Internet atheism - post 2007 market share loss
In 2007, WorldNetDaily featured a column by Chuck Norris concerning atheism and the internet which declared:
“ | Atheists are making a concerted effort to win the youth of America and the world. Hundreds of websites and blogs on the Internet seek to convince and convert adolescents, endeavoring to remove any residue of theism from their minds and hearts by packaging atheism as the choice of a new generation. While you think your kids are innocently surfing the Web, secular progressives are intentionally preying on their innocence and naïveté.
What's preposterous is that atheists are now advertising and soliciting on websites particularly created for teens...[1] |
” |
Atheism internet outreach efforts, however, have been very ineffective.
Decline of YouTube atheism
See also: YouTube atheism
In December 2015, a video entitled What Killed YouTube Atheism? was released giving a number of reasons YouTube atheism saw a big decline (see: What Killed YouTube atheism?).
See also: Atheist factions and Atheists and antisocial behavior
The forerunner of the feminist Atheism plus movement was the online Elevatorgate controversy involving new atheist Richard Dawkins and feminist Rebecca Watson.
The Guardian wrote about Atheism plus and the reaction of many atheists on the internet:
“ | In the passionate world of American atheism, the venom usually directed at believers has now been turned against the wrong kind of atheists...
It took 700 years from Constantine renaming Byzantium in his own honour to papal legates circulating letters of anathema that split the Roman and Orthodox churches. Atheism, in its public, online life, has started exchanging internet anathemas – perhaps we should call them inathemas – in little more than a decade.[10] |
” |
Post Elevatorgate and Atheism plus, the conflict between atheist feminism and anti-feminism atheists continues. Two of the most anti-feminism atheists are YouTube atheists Thunderf00t and TheAmazingAtheist.
Percentage of atheists in the world is shrinking while world internet usage is expanding
See also: Global atheism and Decline of atheism and Atheist Population and Resources for leaving atheism and becoming a Christian
The internet is a global medium which growing rapidly in usage throughout the world.[11]
The percentage of people in the world who are atheists is shrinking (see: Global atheism statistics).
On July 24, 2013, CNS News reported:
“ | Atheism is in decline worldwide, with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) in South Hamilton, Mass."[12] | ” |
In 2011, the American Spectator citing research published in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research reported that atheism is on the decline as a whole in terms of adherents.[13]
The American Spectator declared:
“ | The report estimates about 80,000 new Christians every day, 79,000 new Muslims every day, and 300 fewer atheists every day. These atheists are presumably disproportionately represented in the West, while religion is thriving in the Global South, where charismatic Christianity is exploding."[13] | ” |
See also: Google trends - Atheism and agnosticism terms
2019 Google trends graphs for the terms: Atheism, atheist, Richard Dawkins, agnostic and agnosticism
2019 Google trends world graphs
2019 Google trends USA graphs
Elevatorgate and Richard Dawkins' loss of online influence
See also: Elevatorgate and Richard Dawkins and social media and Atheist movement
Richard Dawkins is still widely criticized for causing embarrassment to his fellow atheists via his Elevatorgate controversy and for igniting deep fractures in the atheist movement.[14]
For example, on November 26, 2013, the atheist activist and blogger Jen McCreight posted at Twitter the message: "Did anyone on Dawkins AMA ask how he feels about singlehandedly destroying the atheist movement with the Dear Muslima yet?"[15] In December 2013, atheist Jack Vance at Atheist Revolution called July 2, 2011, which is the day that Elevatorgate occurred, "The day the atheist movement died."[16]
Graph showing Richard Dawkins' loss of influence post Elevatatorgate
See also: Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science website
As can be seen by the graph below, by means of embedded code on his website from Quantcast, Quantcast directly measured the web traffic of Richard Dawkins' website. Traffic to Dawkins website is significantly down post-Elevatorgate scandal.
Although his following of Dawkian atheist has significantly waned post-Elevatorgate and due to his generally abrasive manner, he does retain a small cult following (See: Richard Dawkins' loss of influence and Richard Dawkins' cult of personality and Atheist cults).
Recent web traffic according to Quantcast which directly measured Dawkins' website traffic
Alexa ranking of Richard Dawkins' website
See also: Alexa rankings of Richard Dawkins' website
On August 8, 2019, was ranked the 231,905th most popular website in the world according to Alexa.
Google trends: Searches for the term Richard Dawkins has seen a large decline
See: Google trends: Searches for the term Richard Dawkins has seen a marked decline
Freethought Blogs
See also: Freethought Blogs and The Orbit and PZ Myers' loss of influence
Freethought Blogs is a spinoff of ScienceBlogs launched by PZ Myers and Ed Brayton.
Web traffic of Freethought Blogs dramatically declines from June 2019 to September 2019
Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019
.Freethought Blogs appear to receive significantly less traffic from women
See also: Atheism and women
The website Freethought Blogs has significantly less women visiting their website than men according to the web traffic tracking company Quantcast.[21] According to the website tracking firm Quantcast, women frequent Richard Dawkins' website significantly less than men.[22]
See also: Sam Harris
On August 19, 2019, the website of Samharris.org was the 66,776th most popular website in the world and its global market share was dropping.
See also: Skepchick and Atheist feminism
On August 8, 2019, Skepchick was ranked the 376,336th most popular website in the world according to Alexa.
The Orbit
See also: The Orbit
The atheist blogger Hemant Mehta reported about the atheist blog network The Orbit:
“ | Nearly two dozen atheist bloggers — many from Freethought Blogs, along with a few others from Patheos, Skepchick, and independent sites — are about to launch a new website called The Orbit. (The site isn’t functional just yet, but it should come online soon.)
According to a now-deleted post, though the same information has been hinted at in several other places, the collective will be focused on atheism and social justice. Interestingly enough, PZ Myers is not on the list of those moving. He’ll remain at Freethought Blogs, where he’s been recruiting new bloggers to the site over the past month. I’m speculating here, but I suspect at least some of the Orbit writers are heading to the new site in part to get out from under his shadow and away from his burn-all-bridges. Maybe I’m wrong.[23] |
” |
Reddit atheism
See also: Reddit atheism
Reddit atheism, also known as r/atheism, is one of the largest internet groups of atheists.[24]
In 2013 Reddit atheism lost its main page status
In 2013 it suffered a major setback as it lost its status as a default subreddit (default subreddits are the forums that all non-logged in users see when they visit the site. In other words, the atheism subreddit was removed from its homepage).[25]
In 2016, due to Reddit removing inactive "ghost accounts", Reddit reduced the amount of members in Reddit atheism by 10,000 user accounts.[26]
Reddit atheism has a bad reputation
A June 14, 2013 Mashable article declared: "In recent years, r/atheism has become known for memes, images, quote pictures and other content viewed by some as "low brow."[24]
According to the website Motherboard.com, "The term “reddit atheist” has evolved as a shorthand in recent years for a negative internet cliché, that of the rabid Richard Dawkins supporter, the mansplainer..." [26]
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
See also: Atheism and cowardice and Evidence for Christianity
In May 2013, Policymic published an article on Reddit atheism which indicated that Reddit atheists are reluctant to share their atheism offline.[27]
The Policymic article declared:
“ | Are we to make 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.”[27] | ” |
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).
YouTube atheism/evolutionism
See also: YouTube atheism
In 2007, WorldNetDaily featured a column by the Christian Chuck Norris which declared:
“ | Atheists are making a concerted effort to win the youth of America and the world. Hundreds of websites and blogs on the Internet seek to convince and convert adolescents, endeavoring to remove any residue of theism from their minds and hearts by packaging atheism as the choice of a new generation. While you think your kids are innocently surfing the Web, secular progressives are intentionally preying on their innocence and naivete.
What's preposterous is that atheists are now advertising and soliciting on websites particularly created for teens. YouTube, the most popular video site on the Net for young people, is one of their primary avenues for passing off their secularist propaganda.[1] |
” |
Atheism internet outreach efforts, however, have been ineffective.
In October 2016, a video entitled What Killed YouTube Atheism? was released which gave a few reasons why YouTube atheism saw a big decline.[29]
In addition, a December 2015 video entitled How Feminism destroyed 'New Atheism', YouTube atheist/evolutionist Thunderf00t pointed out that merely 2 out of 7 YouTube atheist/evolutionist channels that he plugged in the past are now active.[30]
In 2017, YouTube atheist/skeptic videos began another period of significant decline in terms of views.[31][32]
Atheist PZ Myers says atheists are largely a population of internet nerds and geeks
See also: Atheism and marriage and Atheism and women
In 2013, the atheist PZ Myers declared:
“ | If we're going to expand our base and we're going to draw in more people to recognize the virtues of living in a secular world, we need to appeal to more than just that geek and nerd subset of the population. We need to have a wider base. ...I seriously believe that we're on the cusp of a crisis. We're not there yet but it's looming in front of us. Will we adapt and thrive and change the world? Or will we remain an avocation for a prosperous and largely irrelevant subset of the population? Will we become something more than a scattered society of internet nerds? That's what we have to do.[33] | ” |
In response, Evolution News and Views wrote:
“ | A crisis looms, in Myers's view, because he looks around himself and sees a not very promising basis for a mass movement. He's right. There is indeed a quality of geeky isolation from reality, common sense, and the fullness of life that I see as a motif in atheist and Darwin activism alike.[33] | ” |
Christian websites with a large focus on the topic of atheism
Four of the more notable defense of Christianity websites which have a large focus on the topic of atheism are: Shadow To Light blog, True Freethinker, the Creation Ministries International resources on atheism and the Fixed Point Foundation website.
Website with a main focus on criticizing atheism by not a Christian website
Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists
See: Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists
Atheist trolls
See: Atheist trolls
YouTube atheist TheAmazingAtheist on rape
See also: Atheism and rape and Atheism and women and Elevatorgate
TheAmazingAtheist is YouTube's most subscribed to YouTube channel produced by an atheist and as of February 2012 it had over 280,000 subscribers. In 2012, he viciously told a rape victim "you deserved it" and told her that her rapist "deserved a medal". He also told her that she should try to relive the rape in her mind.
Christian apologist Marian Grinbank wrote concerning TheAmazingAtheist's comments directed towards a rape victim:
“ | A frightening consideration is that it may very well be this personage’s worldview which leads him to such depths of malice...
He also told another woman: "You’re lucky it wasn’t me. I’d have busted your ******* nose and raped you." And has also offered a graphic descriptions of how he would rape a rape victim again. This is in keeping with his modis operandi which, sadly, is a manner whereby some people get and keep a lot of attention. Of course, it is pathetic that some people are so very desperate for attention that they seek it regardless of whether it is good, bad or ugly. This particular Atheist is the organizer of a group, aptly, called The Atheist Scum United and refers to himself as “God of the Godless,” “subhuman,” and “scumbag.” Could not have said it better ourselves. But the belligerence does not stop at his victimization of rape victims but he also takes aim at the dead. He has referred to people who committed suicide due to bullying as having been "weak." What such a person needs, truly needs, is love and prayer because they are obviously hurting very, very badly.[35] |
” |
Atheism websites and polyamory
See also: Internet atheism and polyamory
Polyamory is a general term to denote relationships involving a group of men and women. In polyamorous relationships, often one man is “dating” several women and each of the women is in turn dating several men.[37]
Polyskeptic.com and polyamory
The website Polyskeptic.com has an Alexa traffic rank of 2,276,133 as of June 14, 2012.[38]
Atheist Nexus and polyamory
The website Atheist Nexus bills itself as "The World’s Largest Coalition of Nontheists and Nontheist Communities."[39] As of June 14, 2012, the website Atheist Nexus had an entire group devoted to polyamory.[40]
Wikipedia on polyamory
The website Wikipedia was co-founded by the atheist Jimmy Wales and the agnostic Larry Sanger. Wikipedia has a pro-atheism/evolution slant.
For example, the current Wikipedia article on atheism is very flattering to atheism. As of June 14, 2012 the Wikipedia atheism article does not explicitly mention the tens of millions who died under atheist communist regimes although it does allude to it. Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term "democide" (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to communism is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.[41] Starting on February 20, 2007, Wikipedia had a hotly-debated article on militant atheism that was deleted on February 18, 2012.[42][43]
As of June 14, 2012 Wikipedia had this flattering description of polyamory:
“ | Polyamory, often abbreviated as poly, is often described as consensual, ethical, or responsible non-monogamy. The word is sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to sexual or romantic relationships that are not sexually exclusive, though there is disagreement on how broadly it applies; an emphasis on ethics, honesty, and transparency all around is widely regarded as the crucial defining characteristic.[44] | ” |
Internet atheism and profanity
Internet atheism and quarrelsome atheists
- See also: Atheist factions
In 2010, the Christian apologetics website True Free Thinker wrote:
“ | Scienceblogger Chad Orzel described the commentators on PZ Myers ' Scienceblogs.com site Pharyngula, and other Scienceblogs.com commentators, as "screechy monkeys."[45] | ” |
Richard Dawkins' battle with online fans
See also: Atheism and profanity
In February 2010, the news organization The Telegraph reported Richard Dawkins was "embroiled in a bitter online battle over plans to rid his popular internet forum for atheists of foul language, insults and 'frivolous gossip'."[46] Given that Wired Magazine and Vox Day declared for various reasons that atheists tend to be quarrelsome, socially challenged men, it is not surprising the online dispute was bitter. In addition, Richard Dawkins has a reputation for being abrasive.
Internet atheism and obesity
See also: Atheism and obesity and Bariatric science
A significant portion of the world's atheists are overweight (see: Atheism and obesity).
In an essay entitled How the Atheist Movement Failed Me, an atheist woman noted that participation in the atheist community is often expensive due to the cost of attending atheist conferences and even local atheist meetings in restaurants and bars challenged her modest budget.[3] As a result of the challenges that atheists commonly have in terms of socializing in person, many atheists turn to the internet in terms of communicating with other atheists.[49]
In 2009, an Australian university study was done concerning the association between leisure time internet and computer use with being overweight and/or obese and also sedentary.[48] The study concluded: "These findings suggest that, apart from nutritional and physical activity interventions, it may also be necessary to decrease time spent in sedentary behaviors, such as leisure-time Internet and computer use, in order to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity."[48] See also: Bariatric science
As noted above, in 2013, the prominent atheist PZ Myers declared:
“ | If we're going to expand our base and we're going to draw in more people to recognize the virtues of living in a secular world, we need to appeal to more than just that geek and nerd subset of the population. We need to have a wider base. ...I seriously believe that we're on the cusp of a crisis. We're not there yet but it's looming in front of us. Will we adapt and thrive and change the world? Or will we remain an avocation for a prosperous and largely irrelevant subset of the population? Will we become something more than a scattered society of internet nerds? That's what we have to do.[33] | ” |
Internet nerds are typically less active in sports. Also, atheists are not as active in sports as theists (See: Sports performance: Religious faith vs. atheism ). And inactivity is a major risk factor for obesity.[50] See also: Atheist nerds
American Atheists website
See also: American Atheists
On August 9, 2019, the American Atheists website was ranked the 338,824th most popular website in the world by Alexa.
Embarrassing incidents concerning the website of the American Atheists
See also: Embarrassing incidents concerning the website of the American Atheists
A Question evolution! campaign blog declares:
“ | The popular Christian YouTube video creator Shockofgod just released a hilarious video entitled Proof atheism & evolution are stupid.
On the video, he first did a Google search at Google USA for the word "atheism". The #1 search result for atheism was for the website of the American Atheists organization and they misspelled the words "separation" and "church" on the main page title tag for their website. The title of their website reads: "Supporting Civil Rights for Atheists and the Seperation of Curch and ...". Did the American Atheist organization's webmaster go to one of the many evolution indoctrinating public schools with a high drop out rate? It appears so! Is it any wonder that the American Atheists organization has been silent concerning the 15 questions for evolutionists of the Question Evolution! Campaign? Besides being poor spellers the American Atheists organization's staff is probably poor when it comes to science as well![52] |
” |
On October 17, 2014, Shockofgod's blog declared:
“ | In the United States, due to more women and southerners attending college/universities, atheism is now negatively correlated with education.
As a result, American atheists contribute some of the most ill-informed/uneducated commentary on the internet. Alexa is a popular web traffic tracking company. Below is a portion of Alexa's site overview for the website of the American Atheists organization and notice that 5.01% of their search engine traffic comes from the keyword "athiest" which is a misspelling of the world atheist. From the Alexa website on October 17, 2014: Site Overview atheists.org Top Keywords from Search Engines Which search keywords send traffic to this site? Keyword Percent of Search Traffic
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” |
Videos on atheism
Social media and social ostracism of atheists in religious societies
See: Social media and social ostracism of atheists
Atheist deconversion stories and the internet
See also: Atheist deconversion stories
Michael J. Kruger, President and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary, wrote about atheist deconversion stories:
“ | Of course, there have always been de-conversion stories available throughout the history of the church—if one would only take the time to dig them up and listen to them. Christianity has never had a shortage of people who were once in the fold and then left.
But in recent years these de-conversion stories seem to have taken on a higher profile. Part of this is due, no doubt, to the technology that makes these de-conversion stories more available whether through podcasts, blogs, or other forms of media.[53] |
” |
See also
External links
- The Problem of Internet Atheists by Max Andrews
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55789
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Internet atheism: The thrill is gone!
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 How the Atheist Movement Failed Me – Part 1: Cost
- ↑ Atheists Online: -How Atheists Grew An Active Internet Community, Conatus News
- ↑
- The “Atheism Movement:” Dead or Alive?, Freethought Blogs
- Atheist activist Seth Andrews keeps seeing reports on social media and the media that the atheist movement is dying, Examining Atheism
- Atheist Aron Ra indicates the atheist movement is dead. Now that that Aron Ra has surrendered...., Examining Atheism
- The Day the Atheist Movement Died by Jack Vance at Atheist Revolution
- Jennifer McCreight on Twitter about the Elevatorgate scandal destroying the atheist movement, Jen McCreight, Twitter
- ↑ The ghost of atheist past, Freethought Blogs
- ↑ 2015 was a terrible year for internet atheism
- ↑ Freethoughtblog.com uses Quantcast to measure their web traffic and the demograghhics of their web visitors - Click to see report
- ↑ Internet atheism and skepticism: The thrill is gone!
- ↑ Is American atheism heading for a schism? by Peter McGrath, The Guardian
- ↑ http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Global Study: Atheists in Decline, Only 1.8% of World Population by 2020
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity
- ↑
- Richard Dawkins: Skeptic of women? - Salon, July 8, 2011
- Sharing a lift with Richard Dawkins by David Allen Green - New Stateman - 06 July 2011
- Richard Dawkins Torn Limb From Limb—By Atheists - Gawker
- Atheists address sexism issues - USA Today
- Richard Dawkins, check the evidence on the 'chilly climate' for women by Emily Band, The Guardian, July 24, 2011
- Richard Dawkins and male privilege By Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, July 5, 2011 10:30 am
- ↑ Jennifer McCreight on the Twitter about the Elevatorgate scandal
- ↑ The Day the Atheist Movement Died by Jack Vance at Atheist Revolution
- ↑ 2012 has been a very BAD year for Richard Dawkins's website according to Quantcast
- ↑ Richard Dawkins' loss of influence
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Quantcast - Quantcast Measure
- ↑ Web traffic of Richard Dawkins' main website
- ↑ Multiple references:
- "Freethoughtblogs.com" [demographics] Quαntcast.
- ↑ Quantcast data - Richarddawkins.net - demographics
- ↑ reputation Several Atheist Bloggers Are Moving to “The Orbit” by Hemant Mehta
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Reddit Atheists Have New Leadership After Turbulent Coup
- ↑ Reddit dumps r/atheism and r/politics from its default homepage
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Reddit Rapture: How r/atheism Suddenly Lost 10,000 Users
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 Reddit Users: Why Atheist Redditors Are Stuck On the Internet
- ↑ http://www.totalgymdirect.com/
- ↑ What Killed YouTube Atheism?
- ↑ How Feminism destroyed 'New Atheism'
- ↑ A Supply and Demand Framework for YouTube Politics by Kevin Munger & Joseph Phillips. Penn State Political Science, October 1, 2019, See page 23
- ↑ You Tube atheist/skeptic videos see a decline in views from 2017 to present
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 in Seattle, PZ Myers Reflects Candidly on His Constituency
- ↑ Roberts, Andrew. "Stalin's army of rapists: The brutal war crime that Russia and Germany tried to ignore", Daily Mail, 24 October 2008.
- ↑ Atheist victimizes rape victim
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Coming Out Poly + A Change of Life Venue
- ↑ Atheist leaders and immoral relationships
- ↑ Atheist leaders and immoral relationships
- ↑ Atheist leaders and immoral relationships
- ↑ Atheist leaders and immoral relationships
- ↑ Atheist leaders and immoral relationships
- ↑ Atheist leaders and immoral relationships
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Militant_atheism&action=history
- ↑ Atheist leaders and immoral relationships
- ↑ http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/pz-myers-and-pavlovs-monkeys
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7322177/Richard-Dawkins-in-bitter-web-censorship-row-with-fellow-atheists.html
- ↑ Long-term weight loss maintenance, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2005 July; 82(1 Suppl):222S-225S.
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 http://www.jmir.org/2009/3/e28/
- ↑ How to outlaw Christianity by Chuck Norris
- ↑ Causes of obesity
- ↑ http://lifewithoutfaith.com/?p=183
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 Uneducated and illiterate American atheists
- ↑ The Power of De-Conversion Stories: How Jen Hatmaker is Trying to Change Minds About the Bible by Michael J. Kruger