CJ Werleman’s Biggest Fan: ‘@Women4Atheism’
Many people have noticed the suspciously close connection between the twitter account @Women4Atheism and the writer CJ Werleman.
Here are the reasons that suspicion is justified:
Five years ago a twitter account called @ShitMyJesusSays is created. The first tweet is to CJ Werleman’s former account:
It’s followed by more jokes of a similar style:
Other similar tweets can be found here:
Sometime before March 28 2010, the username is changed to @Women4Atheism. The more vulgar tweets are deleted, presumably because the owner of the account deems them unbecoming of Ladies For Godlessness.
They’re followed by tweets like this:
Werleman’s new book gets a plug via retweet:
A bunch of people (the first being Werleman’s former account) get spammed with this:
Then just under a year ago @Women4Atheism for all intents and purposes becomes Women4CJ (or should that be CJforCJ) and starts petitioning Sam Harris and Bill Maher to recognize Werleman’s brilliance:
“She” then begins petitioning others:
As well as complimenting the man himself:
And retweeting others who compliment the man himself:
More of the same can be viewed here:
http://favstar.fm/users/Women4Atheism
And here:
https://twitter.com/Women4Atheism/with_replies
It’s worth noting that Werleman Favorites and Retweets almost every tweet @Women4Atheism makes. And why not? They have so much in common. A shared love of “midget” jokes:
And a difficulty spelling lightning:
It’s also worth noting that during this time, there is virtually no mention of anything even remotely related to the cause of ‘Women for Atheism.’
Then: The Maher/Harris/Affleck thing happens, and @Women4Atheism begins petitioning for Werleman once again:
Then prior to his appearance on The Young Turks there’s this:
And just to be sure:
Followed by more praise:
Then on the 17th of October, Werleman is accused of plagiarism on Godless Spellchecker’s blog: http://www.gspellchecker.com/2014/10/is-cj-werleman-a- plagiarist/
When in doubt, insult Sarah Palin:
A day later, this response:
Werleman then mistakenly comes to the conclusion that evidence of plagiarism is irrelevant if someone else has also plagiarised:
But at the same time seems to think better of it:
Remember that “Birds of a feather” thing? Well, forget it:
The self-proclaimed rising voice of ‘New Atheism’ then tweets:
A day later, the ‘heartfelt apology’ – not to the authors, not to the readers, but only to the people who continue to support him:
Werleman then goes off on a tangent and bizarrely forgets he himself is an immigrant (or “borrows” from someone who isn’t):
The very same day, a mysterious new blogger appears:
Werleman then retweets a blog post accusing Harris of the same instances of plagiarism Werleman had promised to make:
@Women4Atheism returns:
Sam Harris responds:
People begin to put two and two together – Werleman tweets:
Meanwhile, “Stephanie Cranson” has second thoughts:
Presumably to keep up the charade of being an actual person, “Stephanie” then retweets an important news story:
At this point, Werleman still can’t grasp why this is a big deal:
Neither can @Women4Atheism:
“She” chooses this moment to lose her faith:
Before finally revealing the “truth”:
It’s quickly retweeted:
Stephanie? A better name would be Patsy:
@Women4Atheism offers to remove the blog falsely accusing Harris of plagiarism, but there’s a catch:
@Women4Atheism then makes another accusation against Harris:
…in response to the following paragraph from Harris’ blog:
There’s one final interaction between Werleman and @Women4Atheism. All you unforgiving atheists could learn a thing or two from this man:
Hmmm…
You can accuse CJ Werleman of plagiarism, opportunism, and intellectual dishonesty, but don’t ever accuse him of being too hard on himself.
