1 thought on “ATHEISM: “Why Is Atheism More Popular Than Ever?” ☮”

1. Slowly, perhaps, but fairly steadily atheistic acknowledgements are growing. An important component of this is the number of celebrity acknowledgements of atheism and, among the comedians, open disparagement and ridicule of religion. This, I think, is hugely influential among millennials. Personally, I find an increasing number of agnostics, ‘spiritual-rather-than-religious, and other searchers out in the world. Admittedly, however, I might tend to move in social circles where free thinking is more welcome. I have not tested the proposition at a state fair in Indiana.

   What is worrisome in this report, in case you missed it, is that the religious are more fecund than we non-religionists. Their numbers are growing, especially in the most oppressed and impoverished corners of the world where the religionists cruelly exploit their poverty and lack of education.

   The great challenge facing secular humanists is convincing the fence-sitters that humanism is not an expressway to an immoral, individualism-run-amock society. Many are trying to articulate an attractive alternative to religiously informed morality and we are making headway but we still await a way to put our argument for a humanistic morality into clear and convincing terms more people can understand. We just have to keep chipping away.

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