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Re:Shame on Y Combinator by wybiral on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:15AM (#12735267)
conservapedia.com seems mildly biased on this subject, in the sense that it's entirely biased from a creationist perspective.

For instance: http://www.conservapedia.com/God

> "Other than creation itself, God is revealed in several ways, including conscience and special revelation (the Bible, and prophets). Most importantly though, God is revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God."

I don't expect them to paint a friendly portrait of Richard Dawkins.

Re:Shame on Y Combinator by dlss on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:23AM (#12735348)
Yeah, I wasn't trying to recommend them. They just did the leg work of digging up the quotes and putting them on a single (huge) page for linking, which I thought was what you were asking for.
Re:Shame on Y Combinator by wybiral on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:12PM (#12735877)
Thanks. I got confused because the parent post mentioned the "downfall" of "the Atheist community in the US" as opposed to an outspoken atheist who said something stupid online and got publicly ridiculed for it.
Re:Shame on Y Combinator by dlss on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:32PM (#12736105)
> I got confused because the parent post mentioned the "downfall" of "the Atheist community in the US"

Yes, I was the person who wrote that, and this is what I meant.

> as opposed to an outspoken atheist who said something stupid online and got publicly ridiculed for it.

... which then resulted in infighting over if it should be ridiculed, a mass exodus of the thought leaders, and general dwindling of the community. Seriously, Dawkins was shunned by major atheist conferences over his comments in my earlier link. Many atheists then shunned those conferences for shunning Dawkins. When's the last time you saw new material on athiesm in the news? Your answer is almost surely "before elevatorgate"

Re:Shame on Y Combinator by wybiral on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:42PM (#12736235)
Ah, see, I don't view atheism as a community or as a political movement. It's just a personal believe (or lack thereof). And I don't see any evidence that this has declined.
Re:Shame on Y Combinator by ThomPete on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:50PM (#12736326)
There is an atheist community no doubt about that. The bright movement was a good example and then followers of Dawkins, Harris Hitchen et all which roams places like Reddit are by every definition of that word a community with a shared amount of argument, interest and an idea of outside the community.