When Will Anti-Atheism Be Viewed as Bigotry? When Hell Freezes Over

The atheist author and blogger Ken Davis wrote an essay entitled Will Anti-Atheism Be Viewed as Bigotry?

Anti-atheism will be seen as bigotry by the public at large when hell freezes over.

Consider:

1. Sociological research indicates that atheists are widely distrusted in both religious cultures and nonreligious cultures. Source: https://www.independent.co....

According to a study published in the International Journal for The Psychology of Religion: "anti-atheist prejudice is not confined either to dominantly religious countries or to religious individuals, but rather appears to be a robust judgment about atheists." The study found that many atheists do not trust other atheists as well.

2. As a percentage of the world's population, atheism peaked in 1970 and it is now declining both now and in the foreseeable future.  This is partly due to demographic reasons related to fertility rates of the religious and non-religious.

3. The Western/developed world is expected to experience a trend of overall desecularization by 2050 or sooner. Source: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First, Century, Eric Kaufmann, Belfer Center, Harvard University/Birkbeck College, University of London at: http://www.sneps.net/RD/upl... and http://www.sneps.net/wp-con...

4.  Peak secularization may have already been hit in several European countries:

Conatus News reported in 2017 concerning Britain:

Church of England worshippers increase 0.8 per cent since 2009. The number of non-religious people falls from 50.65% to 48.6% 

Rise in Church of England worshippers likely due to resurgence in patriotism and pride in Christianity, a report has found 

According to a new report, for every person brought up in a non-religious household who becomes a churchgoer, 26 people raised as Christians now identify as non-believers. 

The study, which is based on an analysis of the British Social Attitudes Survey and the European Social Survey, reported that the proportion of non-religious in the UK hit a high of 50.6 per cent in 2009. However, it has been decreasing ever since and hit 48.6 per cent in 2015. 

However, the proportion of those who identify as Church of England worshippers has seen a slight increased from 16.3 per cent in 2009 to 17.1 per cent in 2015.

In 2010, Professor Eric Kaufmann declared that the rate of secularisation flattened to zero in most of Protestant Europe and France.

Pew Research indicated in a 2017 article entitled Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe: "...the comeback of religion in a region once dominated by atheist regimes is striking – particularly in some historically Orthodox countries, where levels of religious affiliation have risen substantially in recent decades." 

5. China has the world's biggest atheist population. Evangelical Christianity is seeing explosive growth in China (see: In China, Unregistered Churches Are Driving a Religious Revolution ).