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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire

How can they spread

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the atheist community

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Leading atheist websites see decline in web traffic

See also: Atheism and the internet and Atheistic bullying

The article Internet atheism: The thrill is gone! points out that internet atheism has been in a significant slump since 2008.

During the period of 2008 to 2012, the atheist community made a concerted effort to spread atheism through means of the internet. However, leading atheist websites have seen plunges in web traffic during this same period and during the first half of 2012.[28]

In May of 2012, it was pointed out by supporters of Creation Ministries International's Question evolution! campaign that from a global internet perspective the public's interest in the views of the agnostic/weak atheist Richard Dawkins and the atheist PZ Myers and in atheism are on the decline while interest in Jesus and Christianity are on the upswing.[29]

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Atheism and the internet
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2. In China, which is an atheistic communist state, Christianity is exploding which is bad news for global atheism (see: Global Christianity). Atheism is not a strong ideology when faced with fervent biblical Christianity competition. Although China and Asia as a whole may have short term setbacks, they are increasingly gaining influence in the world.

3. Christianity prevailed against state sponsored militant atheism in the Soviet Union.[30] Atheistic evolution is a state sponsored enterprise via public schools. Evolutionary belief is the air supply of atheism.

4. Some of the biggest allies of atheistic evolutionism in the United States are: public schools, academia, the liberal media, liberal Christianity, federal government funding/support for evolutionary pseudoscience

- In the Western World, the atheist community leans heavily towards the left in terms of politics (the leftist atheists community is often referred to as the secular left). [31][32]

In the United States and in Europe, the secular left has been losing power in the political realm and political parties on the right have been ascendant (Donald Trump being elected and Republicans maintaining both house of Congress in 2016, Brexit, European right-wing parties are ascendant).

Currently, the governments of Europe, Japan, Britain, and the U.S. are all mired in debt and there is a sovereign debt crises in many European countries in the Eurozone. [33][34] The emergence of financially struggling and bankrupt liberal governments, which often promote secularism, is probably not a positive development for the future of atheism.

- American government run public schools are increasingly facing budget cuts and there is growing criticism of public schools. Vouchers for private schools (including religious schools) and charter schools are increasingly being discussed and legislators are introducing and passing school choice bills.[35] Of course, constrained public school budgets includes constrained school legal budgets so many schools will be less able to engage in frivolous/unwarranted legal suits constraining religious free speech in their schools.

- A large percentage of U.S. college students fund their college expenses via student loans. In 2017, Forbes reported there was a student loan crisis.[36] There appears to be a higher education bubble that will burst.[37] The Wall Street Journal reported in 2013 that the percentage of Americans going to college has been decreasing for 3 years in the USA.[38] Also, college is clearly not delivering the goods in terms of intellectual development for a large percentage of its students. An American study found that forty-five percent of students achieved no significant improvement in their critical thinking, reasoning or writing skills during the first two years of college. After four years, 36 percent displayed no significant increases in these so-called "higher order" thinking skills.[39] Students, particularly those who made poor curriculum choices, are increasingly angry that college does not adequately prepare them for the marketplace and leaves them with a pile of debt.[40]

- the liberal media, such as the American liberal newspapers and television networks, continue to lose market share.[41] See the video: American mainstream media - Apostles of atheism

- Liberal Christianity has been an ally of atheists in the creation vs. evolution culture war. Evolutionism is an important ideological underpinning of atheism. Due to the explosive growth of global Christianity and conservative Christians and religious conservatives having higher birth rates and greater evangelism success, liberal Christianity is expected to continue to decline in both number of adherents and influence.

- The U.S. federal government funds evolutionary pseudoscience

http://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:_10_reasons_why_American_atheism_will_see_a_significant_decline

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I have to wonder about some of the 'data' presented in the OP. Why? Because, according to reliable census data, the trend in Australia is precisely the opposite of that claimed in the OP, which was largely based on claims from rather dodgy sources.
"There is a trend in Australia of increasing religious disbelief. Since the 1971 Census, when the specific instruction of "if no religion write none" was included, reporting of no religion has steadily increased. In 2011, close to 4.8 million (24% of males and 21% of females) reported no religion.

A 2013 Roy Morgan poll indicated that non-religious Australians comprised approximately 37% of the population. The 2016 Census is anticipated to report an increase in the prevalence of religious disbelief over the 2011 Census."
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2016/08/09/4515206.htm

"The second factor[causing the decline in religiosity] is the steady rise of religious disbelief in Australia and a majority of more economically developed countries, including Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, France, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

A Win-Gallup International poll in 2012 of 59,927 individuals in 57 countries found an average decline of 9% in religious belief over seven years, with the most notable declines seen in developed countries. This study suggested a general trend where the poorer the country, the higher the rate of religious belief.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/growing-numbers-of-young-australians-record-no-religion-in-census-20131124-2y3w7.html

In 1911, only 0.4% of Australians reported 'no religion' in the census. Therefore, the current figure represents an exponential increase in the numbers of non-believers. There is no reason to suppose that Australian trends are unique to Australia. Declines in 'religiosity' have been consistently reported in Europe also. For instance, previously-deeply religious Ireland has seen the number of church goers decline dramatically in recent decades. From memory, up to 90% of Ireland's citizens used to attend church weekly. Current estimates place that figure at c10% today.

It is notable that the increase in the numbers of non-believers mirrors the increase in education and living standards across the West. No one is certain why this is happening, though several explanations have been advanced:
"A study examining the relationship between intelligence and religious belief offers a series of possible explanations for this. One theory that has been posited is that individuals with a high level of intelligence may intrinsically possess some of the functions that religion provides - self-regulation, self-enhancement, secure attachment - and thus have a diminished psychological need for religious belief.

The polymath Jared Diamond, in his book The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies, outlines several societal functions of religion - explaining inexplicable events; reducing anxiety through ritual; providing comfort about pain and death; fostering organisation; promoting political obedience; providing moral codes of behaviour towards strangers; and justifying wars.

These have been important functions at different times throughout human history. However, as scientific inquiry provides advances in living standards and explanations for natural phenomena, there is reduced reliance on these societal functions of religion."
http://www.smh.com.au/national/growing-numbers-of-young-australians-record-no-religion-in-census-20131124-2y3w7.html

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During the period of 2008 to 2012, the atheist community made a concerted effort to spread atheism through means of the internet. However, leading atheist websites have seen plunges in web traffic during this same period and during the first half of 2012.[28]

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We're a 'community' now? I didn't know that. Where do we meet? Are there cakes?

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I guess my species is getting extinct.

Oh well!

I don't blame the world for hoping after life is better than their current life.

That's the lie Christianity been selling their followers and the appeal.

Atheist just deal with the truth that there is only this life and nothingness after. Not a very attractive proposition. So people who are suffering in this world has nothing better to look forward to, after death if they go with atheism.

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but we now know atheists dont have the mental cpacity to see whats in front of their noses!

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"A study examining the relationship between intelligence and religious belief offers a series of possible explanations for this. One theory that has been posited is that individuals with a high level of intelligence may intrinsically possess some of the functions that religion provides - self-regulation, self-enhancement, secure attachment - and thus have a diminished psychological need for religious belief.

BRILLIANT! and I mean totaly fucking BRILLIANT!

Now atheists are trying to steal the substantial elements of religion and claim it for their own, and of course you dont see the orwellian oxymoronism in that! LMAO