You spend enough time with New Atheists, and you very quickly discover why the movement tripped over its own dick and died back in the '00s.
Christopher Hitchens secularizing the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, Sam Harris secularizing Islamophobia, Richard Dawkins secularizing misogyny. Joel Osteen juice and crackers seem far more attractive than some greasy, hollow-eyed Objectivist preaching nihilism and genocide in the name of corporate profits.
If we take “atheism” to mean the vague “lack of belief in any deities”, then atheism is still on the rise by a significant amount.
It is, however, a hilariously ironic notion that atheism fails where Christianity succeeds: being appropriated by the far-right to spread bigotry and fascism.
I guess there’s a far bigger gap in intelligence between the atheists and the religious than the religious would ever be comfortable acknowledging.
You spend enough time with New Atheists, and you very quickly discover why the movement tripped over its own dick and died back in the '00s.
Christopher Hitchens secularizing the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, Sam Harris secularizing Islamophobia, Richard Dawkins secularizing misogyny. Joel Osteen juice and crackers seem far more attractive than some greasy, hollow-eyed Objectivist preaching nihilism and genocide in the name of corporate profits.
At least in the US, younger generations are still increasingly nonreligious
If we take “atheism” to mean the vague “lack of belief in any deities”, then atheism is still on the rise by a significant amount.
It is, however, a hilariously ironic notion that atheism fails where Christianity succeeds: being appropriated by the far-right to spread bigotry and fascism.
I guess there’s a far bigger gap in intelligence between the atheists and the religious than the religious would ever be comfortable acknowledging.