Examining Atheism
The blog Examining Atheism reports on the 21st century decline of global atheism and its impact on Western atheism and Asian atheism. See also: Desecularization and European atheism and 21st century decline
The blog is a continuation of the blog Combating atheism albeit with a different focus.
A July 19, 2016 Combating atheism blog post indicates:
| “ | For all intents and purposes, New Atheism is dead. And there will be no resurrection of New Atheism. And although militant atheism is hanging on in China, given the rapid growth of Christianity in China, I see militant atheism falling in China and then subsequently in Vietnam and North Korea. So sometime in the 21st century militant atheism will be effectively dead as a force in the world.
Given: the current implosion of militant atheism; New Atheism dying and being replaced with milk toast atheism in the Western World; atheists/agnostics shrinking as a percentage of the world's population; the immigration of the religious into secular Europe (who are very often resistant to assimilation); and the pessimism of many atheists as far as the atheist movement; the name of this blog - "Combating atheism" - seems obsolete. Lately, the major news outlets have sparse reporting on the topic of atheism. And the few news stories they do have are often negative towards atheism or boring stories reporting on trivial matters. In short, "Atheism: The excitement is not raging." No glorious battles, but a slow global attrition of the dying breed of atheists. And a withering away of atheist influence in the media and the educational system. The 21st century will be a horrible century for militant atheists and antitheists.[1] |
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Frequency of blog posts
The blog has a tentative posting schedule of an annual post in January when the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) releases it annual report on the status of global Christianity which features statistics on various adherents of other religions/worldviews - including statistics about atheists/agnostics.[2] Alternatively, blog posts may happen more or less frequently in response to notable news about global atheism/creationism/evolutionism.[3]