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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 [[atheism|atheist]] make up only 1.6% of respondents to this survey....<ref>American Faith: A Work In Progress 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 [[atheism|atheist]] make up only 1.6% of respondents to this survey....<ref>American Faith: A Work In Progress 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, as noted earlier even atheist philosopher Michael Ruse stated 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, as noted earlier even atheist philosopher Michael Ruse stated 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>