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Not too long ago, I wrote that American atheism was going the way of the freak show.  As books by Christopher Hitchens and other "new atheists" climbed the best seller lists, I caught a lot of flak for that prophecy. But atheist make up only 1.6% of respondents to this survey....<ref>American Faith: A Work In Progess by Stephen Prothero, USA Today, March 10, 2008, page 11A</ref>}}

Not too long ago, I wrote that American atheism was going the way of the freak show.  As books by Christopher Hitchens and other "new atheists" climbed the best seller lists, I caught a lot of flak for that prophecy. But atheist make up only 1.6% of respondents to this survey....<ref>American Faith: A Work In Progess by Stephen Prothero, USA Today, March 10, 2008, page 11A</ref>}}

A prime reason for the ineffectiveness of the "new atheism" is the shallowness of its material.  For example, even atheist philosopher [[Michael Ruse]] stated that that Richard Dawkins' book ''The God Delusion'' made him embarrassed to be an atheist.<ref name="TDD3">http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/47052/?page=3</ref>

A prime reason for the ineffectiveness of the "new atheism" is the shallowness of its material.  For example, even atheist philosopher [[Michael Ruse]] stated that that Richard Dawkins' book ''The God Delusion'' made him "embarrassed to be an atheist".<ref name="TDD3">http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/47052/?page=3</ref>

==Atheism and the Bible==

==Atheism and the Bible==