Internet atheism and the coronavirus pandemic

See: Atheism and the coronavirus pandemic.
The coronavirus pandemic started in atheist-controlled, communist China that allowed thousands of COVID-19 infected people to leave China during the early stage of the pandemic when the world was not aware of it.[1] China has state atheism. In terms of world's countries, China has the largest atheist population in the world (see: Atheism and China). Most of the world's atheists are East Asians (see: Asian atheism and Global atheism).
As can be seen below, several atheist websites did very poorly during the coronavirus pandemic and lost a large amount of their traffic since the early part of 2020.
On the other hand, there were major Christian websites that saw their web traffic substantially grow during the coronavirus pandemic (See: Christian websites and the coronavirus pandemic).
Historically, religiosity increases during pandemics. Pew Research found people's religious faith grew during the pandemic - especially in the United States.[2] Nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults say the outbreak has boosted their faith; about four-in-ten say it has tightened family bonds.[3]
In addition, many atheist organizations have significant difficulty in getting their fellow atheist to financially support them (see: Atheist organizations and fundraising), so their web marketing budgets could have been low during the pandemic. In addition, many atheist organizations have poor fiscal management so they may not have had reserves built up before the pandemic (see: Atheist organizations and financial mismanagement). For example, the website RationalWiki lost an enormous amount of web traffic during the coronavirus pandemic. On May 29, 2022, one of the founders of the RationalWiki website indicated "Currently the donations we get are sparse... We have not done a donation drive in a long time and have not been self-supporting for over a year....".[4] Rationalwiki has not complied with non-profit reporting requirements for 7 consecutive years.[5]
The atheist websites that lost web traffic during the coronavirus pandemic might never gain that traffic back again as the number of atheists in the world is expected to drop before mid-2022 according to the scholars at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.[6] Currently, the global atheist population is losing market share in terms of the world's population (see: Global atheism statistics). In addition, various atheists have indicated that the atheist movement died or is dying (see: Decline of the atheist movement).
Contents
- 1 Atheist Sam Harris' website
- 2 RationalWiki and its large drop in Google referral traffic since October 2019 and during/after 2020
- 3 American Atheists website and its loss of Google referral traffic
- 4 Richard Dawkins' website and loss of Google referral traffic
- 5 Center for Inquiry website's loss of Google referral web traffic
- 6 During the coronavirus pandemic Freethought Blogs lost monthly Google referral traffic visits
- 7 Skeptoid.com's Loss of Google referral web traffic
- 8 ReligiousTolerance.org website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic (Has a significant amount of atheism/skepticism content)
- 9 Atheist Republic's loss of Google referral web traffic
- 10 Atheist Alliance International website: Loss of Google referral traffic
- 11 Atheist Community of Austin website's loss of Google referral traffic
- 12 Secular Web's website: Loss of Google referral traffic
- 13 The Atheist Experience Show website's loss of Google referral traffic
- 14 EvilBible.com website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
- 15 The Orbit: Loss of Google referral traffic
- 16 The AtheistForums.org website's loss of Google referral traffic
- 17 Atheist Ireland website: Loss of Google referral traffic
- 18 The ArgumentsForAtheism.com website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
- 19 RationalResponders.com website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
- 20 The Atheist Revolution website: Loss of Google referral traffic
- 21 John W. Loftus' Debunking Christianity website: Loss of Google referral traffic
- 22 AtheistScholar.org website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
- 23 AskTheAtheist.com website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
- 24 Christian websites and the coronavirus pandemic
- 25 See also
- 26 Notes
Atheist Sam Harris' website

See also: Sam Harris
Sam Harris' websites loss of Google referral web traffic

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
RationalWiki and its large drop in Google referral traffic since October 2019 and during/after 2020
See also: RationalWiki and the coronavirus pandemic and RationalWiki and web traffic and RationalWiki

As you can see in the above graph, Google has downgraded its estimation of RationalWiki in terms of the quality of its website and RationalWiki is getting less Google traffic.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Indications that RationalWiki lacked funds during the pandemic
See also: RationalWiki and the coronavirus pandemic
On May 29, 2022, one of the founders of the RationalWiki website indicated "Currently the donations we get are sparse... We have not done a donation drive in a long time and have not been self-supporting for over a year....".[9] Rationalwiki has not complied with non-profit reporting requirements for 7 consecutive years.[10] See also: Atheist organizations and fundraising and Atheist fundraising vs. religious fundraising
Indications that RationalWiki had poor leadership during the pandemic
See also: RationalWiki and its poor leadership during the pandemic and Atheism and leadership
There are indications that RationalWiki had poor leadership during the coronavirus pandemic (see: RationalWiki and its poor leadership during the pandemic).
KarmaPolice on the future of RationalWiki
KarmaPolice is RationalWiki (RW) editor who is a British socialist.
On August 15, 2022, KarmaPolice wrote concerning RationalWiki: "...it's quite possible that by say, 2030 the RW 'TimeCube' page may be *only* surviving record of it's existence."[11]
American Atheists website and its loss of Google referral traffic
See also: American Atheists

As of July 28, 2022, the Google referral traffic going to the American Atheists website is significantly lower than it was at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic according to SEMRush's data.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Richard Dawkins' website and loss of Google referral traffic

See also: Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science website

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Center for Inquiry website's loss of Google referral web traffic

See also: Center for Inquiry

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.

See also: Freethought Blogs and PZ Myers

Freethought Blogs is an atheist/agnostic blogging community. It was founded by atheists Ed Brayton and PZ Myers.[16][17]
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Skeptoid.com's Loss of Google referral web traffic
See also: Skeptoid

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
ReligiousTolerance.org website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic (Has a significant amount of atheism/skepticism content)

According to the leading web marketing website SEMRush, ReligiousTolerance.org has lost a very large portion of its monthly Google referral traffic visits.
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Atheist Republic's loss of Google referral web traffic
See also: Atheist Republic

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Atheist Alliance International website: Loss of Google referral traffic
See also: Atheist Alliance International

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Atheist Community of Austin website's loss of Google referral traffic

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
Secular Web's website: Loss of Google referral traffic
See also: Secular Web

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
The Atheist Experience Show website's loss of Google referral traffic


Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
EvilBible.com website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
The Orbit: Loss of Google referral traffic
See also: The Orbit

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
The AtheistForums.org website's loss of Google referral traffic
Atheist Ireland website: Loss of Google referral traffic
See also: Michael Nugent
The ArgumentsForAtheism.com website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
RationalResponders.com website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
The Atheist Revolution website: Loss of Google referral traffic
See also: Internet atheism

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
John W. Loftus' Debunking Christianity website: Loss of Google referral traffic
See also: John W. Loftus

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
AtheistScholar.org website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
AskTheAtheist.com website and its loss of monthly Google referral traffic
See also: Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists
A number of major Christian websites, such as Christianity.com and Gotquestions.org, saw significant increases in their Google referral traffic during the difficult coronavirus pandemic time period.
Biblegateway.com and Google referral traffic
Christianity.com and Google referral traffic

The amount of Google referral traffic to Christianity.com has gone significanly since February 2016 according to the leading web marketing website SEMRush and the website's Google referral traffic increased during the pandemic. SEMRush says the website is getting about 6,250,000 monthly referral visits from Google in July 2022.
Got Questions Ministries and Google referral traffic
See also: Got Questions Ministries

According to the article 1,000+ Winners and Losers of the December 2020 Google Core Algorithm Update the website Gotquestions.org saw the 7th biggest increase in Google referral traffic as far as the 50 domains that saw the greatest percent gain in Google visibility.[21]
Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.
See also
Notes
- ↑ To Confront China After Coronavirus, We Must See the Bigger Picture, National Review
- ↑ More Americans Than People in Other Advanced Economies Say COVID-19 Has Strengthened Religious Faith, Pew Research, 2021
- ↑ More Americans Than People in Other Advanced Economies Say COVID-19 Has Strengthened Religious Faith, Pew Forum
- ↑ Difference between revisions of "RationalWiki talk:Site support", Revision as of 17:15, 29 May 2022 (edit) (undo)
- ↑ Is the Foundation Defunct?, RationalWiki talk:RationalMedia Foundation/Archive2, 22:50, 26 August 2021. Rationalwiki.org.
- ↑ Status of Global Christianity, 2022, in the Context of 1900–2050
- ↑ NEWSWEEK Poll: 90% Believe in God, Newsweek 2007
- ↑ Roberts, Jessica, et al. (June 19, 2007). "Interview with an atheist". News21. Retrieved on July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Difference between revisions of "RationalWiki talk:Site support", Revision as of 17:15, 29 May 2022 (edit) (undo)
- ↑ Is the Foundation Defunct?, RationalWiki talk:RationalMedia Foundation/Archive2, 22:50, 26 August 2021. Rationalwiki.org.
- ↑ Latest revision as of 19:08, 15 August 2022 (edit) (undo) KarmaPolice (talk | contribs)(→Rationalwiki should tone down on the snark.)
- ↑ Richard Dawkins says Christianity is world's best defence against radical Islam, Christianity Today, January 2016
- ↑ Professional Atheist Dawkins Says Christianity ‘Bulwark Against Something Worse’, by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D, Breitbart News Network, Jan 12, 2016
- ↑ Atheist Achilles Heels: Objective Morality and Sacred Life
- ↑ The “objective morality” gotcha
- ↑ About Freethoughtblog
- ↑ Five challenges for atheists and secularists in 2016 by Michael Nugent
- ↑ About this web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (OCRT)
- ↑ About this web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (OCRT)
- ↑ Literary mysteries: The best-selling books of all time
- ↑ 1,000+ Winners and Losers of the December 2020 Google Core Algorithm Update