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Klug, Petra (2022). Anti-Atheist Nation: Religion and Secularism in the United States. London: Taylor & Francis. doi:10.4324/9781003307594. ISBN 978-1-000-80442-3.
High degree of infighting among American atheists
The Journal of Contemporary Religion in an article entitled Divided We Stand: The Politics of the Atheist Movement in the United States says: "The persistence of internal schisms and regular outbreaks of in-fighting within the atheist movement also ensure that much energy is effectively wasted on parochial concerns and further undermine attempts to establish a genuine sense of group cohesion."[1]
The American atheist PZ Myers said about the American/Western atheist population: "So deep and wide we’ve separated into two continents."[2]
This info is quite out of date (2014 study) and lack multiple sources. I may try and pull some more recent data but I'll need help merging it into the article. As I lack experience in making such changes. Rx5000 (talk) 14:20, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
