Essay: Will 2022 be the WORST year in the history of secular leftism?

2022 will be the WORST year in the history of secular leftism.

2021 was a HORRIBLE year for atheism and now this!

See also: 2021 is the WORST year in the history of atheism

CEOs, CFOs Predict ‘Red Wave’ In Congress and Strong Inflation for 2022 In New Survey.[1]

Republicans Have 41% More Kids Than Democrats and some studies suggest that 70% of teens vote like their parents.[2]

The pandemic awakened parents to what was being taught in public schools and homeschooling and Christian schools have seen a big rise.[3][4] In addition, there have been protests in public school board meetings as far as critical race theory.

The Supreme Court of the United States is poised to soon end religious discrimination in school choice programs.[5][6]

Question: Will the percentage of Republican parents having teens that vote like them increase higher than 70%?

More and more it is looking like 2022 is going to be the WORST year in the history of atheism - especially for secular leftism. Even WORSE than 2021 which was a very BAD year for atheism!

2021 was the lowest volume of Google searches for the word "atheist" in 17 years.[7] Will it go even lower in 2022?

China

Xi Jinping is the current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China which requires that all their members be atheists. See: China and atheism and Atheism and communism

China has the world's largest atheist population and state atheism (See: China and atheism). A majority of the world's atheists are likely East Asian (See: Asian atheism and Global atheism).

Consider these 3 news stories:

1. When Will China Rule the World? Maybe Never, Bloomberg News, 2021

Excerpt: "The nightmare scenario for Xi is that China could follow the same trajectory as Japan, also touted as a potential challenger to the U.S. before it crashed three decades ago. A combination of reform failure, international isolation and financial crisis could halt China before it reaches the top."

2. China's economic growth will slow sharply in 2022, World Bank says

3. China may have to juice its economy soon as 'stagflation' risk rises

There was already a risk that the Chinese Communist Party would be overthrown and the end of state atheism would cause the already explosive growth of Christianity in China to be further turbocharged (see: Future of atheism in China.

In 2020, The Economist published an article entitled Protestant Christianity is booming in China which indicated:

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As for China’s Christians, their numbers continue to grow. The government reckons that about 200m of China’s 1.4bn people are religious. Although most practice traditional Chinese religions such as Taoism, and longer-standing foreign imports such as Buddhism, Protestant Christianity is probably the fastest-growing faith, with at least 38m adherents today (about 3% of the population), up from 22m a decade ago, according to the government’s count. The true number is probably much higher: perhaps as many as 22m more Chinese Protestants worship in unregistered “underground” churches, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Notre Dame. As China also has 10m-12m Catholics, there are more Christians in China today than in France (38m) or Germany (43m). Combined, Christians and the country’s estimated 23m Muslims may now outnumber the membership of the Communist Party (92m). Indeed, an unknown number of party members go to church as well as local committee meetings.

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To see the magnitude of the explosive growth of Christianity in China, look at this graph about the growth of Christianity in China in a DW news story about Chinese Christianity (DW is a mainstream news outlet in Germany).

For more information, please see: East Asia and global desecularization