I remember reading shit that atheism would spread all over because its logical and most people hadn't heard of it and would use their uh, logic and reasoning to not be religious because of the internet
it kind of has? depending on when you're talking about, I guess, but things like people saying they were jedi on UK relgion surveys started taking off 15-20 years ago and way more people are (willing to say) they're non-religious than 30 years ago.
religious fundamentalists are being shittier but reactionary american christians have been on that trajectory since at least the 1970s and they're mostly losing the culture and only winning things like the supreme court in the face of liberals' horrible incompetence.
The new atheists severely overestimated the positive effect of the internet, I thinks that's obvious.
They thought religion is just about indoctrination and information while disregarding material conditions. Giving internet access to an African child is not going to make the Christian missionaries any less effective.
But statistically speaking religion is still definitely on a decline specially in the first world and if not for climate change or neoliberalism then imo most of the western world would be atheist by the end of the 21st century.
This one's at least kind of understandable, I think. A lot of the people who said this were people came fundamentalist backgrounds and had been brought into atheism by the internet, then wound up congregating (lol) with others who'd followed the same trajectory.
I remember reading shit that atheism would spread all over because its logical and most people hadn't heard of it and would use their uh, logic and reasoning to not be religious because of the internet
it kind of has? depending on when you're talking about, I guess, but things like people saying they were jedi on UK relgion surveys started taking off 15-20 years ago and way more people are (willing to say) they're non-religious than 30 years ago.
religious fundamentalists are being shittier but reactionary american christians have been on that trajectory since at least the 1970s and they're mostly losing the culture and only winning things like the supreme court in the face of liberals' horrible incompetence.
The new atheists severely overestimated the positive effect of the internet, I thinks that's obvious. They thought religion is just about indoctrination and information while disregarding material conditions. Giving internet access to an African child is not going to make the Christian missionaries any less effective.
But statistically speaking religion is still definitely on a decline specially in the first world and if not for climate change or neoliberalism then imo most of the western world would be atheist by the end of the 21st century.
This one's at least kind of understandable, I think. A lot of the people who said this were people came fundamentalist backgrounds and had been brought into atheism by the internet, then wound up congregating (lol) with others who'd followed the same trajectory.