In October of 2015, the new atheist Kyle Kulinkski proposed a ceasefire between new atheists and progressives. As you can below, his proposed truce between New Atheists Vs Progressives failed. Kylinski's hero Richard Richard Dawkins was ground into a fine pulp by progressives.
In a video, which is featured below, Richard Dawkins says his recent stroke was caused by a controversy caused by feminists. On the other hand, Christians prayed for Dawkins after his stroke (see video below).
If only Richard Dawkins was made of tougher stuff, like Christian martyrs and the evangelical Christian Chuck Norris. He wouldn't have let feminists cause him such a high degree of emotional distress. See also: Does Richard Dawkins have machismo? 2015 Alexa ranking of Richard Dawkins' website
In 2015, Richard Dawkins' website fell in terms of its Alexa ranking.
In 2016, Richard Dawkins' website lost a considerable amount of global market share according to the web traffic tracking company Alexa.
2016 Alexa ranking of Richard Dawkins' website
In the latter half of 2016, Richard Dawkins' website saw a significant decline in its Alexa ranking.
In 2016 and the in the beginning portion of 2017, the global internet market share of of Richard Dawkins' website has been falling according to the web traffic tracking company Alexa.
2017 Alexa ranking of Richard Dawkins' website
In March of 2017, according to Alexa, Richard Dawkins' website was experiencing a steep decline in terms of its global market share.
In April of 2017, according to Alexa, Richard Dawkins' website continued to experience a steep decline in terms of its global market share.
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In 2017, Evangelical Focusindicated, "Three new evangelical churches open in France every month The number of worship places has increased tenfold in 60 years. There are 650,000 evangelical Christians in France, a new study shows."
In 2015, according to demographic estimates, at least 29% of the France's population identifies as atheists and 63% identifies as non-religious. However, in 2010, the academic Eric Kaufmann, who is an agnostic, declared "the rate of secularisation has flattened to zero in most of ProtestantEurope and France." Salon reported in the their 2012 article Best 8 Countries to be an atheist
France. Even though France still has a heavy layer of Catholic tradition to its culture that puts the names of saints on street signs and venerates churches as some of its most important landmarks, secularism has become a strong national value in France. As with the United States, erecting a separation between church and state was a central value to the revolution that created the modern democratic state in France. In 1905, France passed a strong law mandating a strict separation of church and state, and since then, secularism has been a strong central French value. Almost too strong, in fact, as French politicians have been too successful in appealing to these secular values in order to pass oppressive laws banning the use of face veils in public. Outside of this exploitation of secularism in service of Islamophobia, by and large the French commitment to secular values seems sincere. Only 25% of French citizens consider religion an important part of their daily life, and the government has laws to prevent proselytizing in schools.
France's evangelicals have grown from 50,000 to 400,000 in the past fifty years. What is God doing in France? What are the lessons learned that can be shared with the rest of the body of Christ?
On July 12, 2012, the Christian Science Monitorreported:
French scholars say, evangelicalism is likely the fastest-growing religion in France – defying all stereotypes about Europe’s most secular nation...Daniel Liechti, vice-president of the French National Evangelical Council, found that since 1970, a new evangelical church has opened in France every 10 days. The number of churches increased from 769 to 2,068 last year.
Muslims make up about 5-7% of the population of France, A Pew Forum study, published in January 2011, estimated 4.7 million Muslims in France in 2010.
The Gatestone Institute reported in 2017: "France's Muslim population could quickly grow to close to 15-17 million, but no one can know precisely unless the law prohibiting the official collection of ethnic data is changed." Is France one of the "Best 8 countries to be an atheist"? If so, it certainly does not appear that it will remain so.
Lessons Learned from Evangelical Growth in France
Is Evangelical Christianity forever dead in France? No. Listen why.
Religious/political demography expert Eric Kaufmann wrote about the United States
In addition, in the 2011, the religious/political demography expert Eric Kaufmann wrote about the United States:
High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to liberal Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will begin to tip the balance in the culture wars towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be pro-life. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.
Growth of Hispanic evangelicals
Consider this excerpt about the new dominance of Spanish television in the USA:
Univision? More like Uno-vision.
This summer, there's a new No. 1 among television viewers aged 18 to 49: For the fourth week in a row, the Spanish-language network Univision has won the primetime ratings contest for this coveted demographic, as well as the 18 to 34 cohort. It's Univision's first top finish in a sweeps month; the network previously beat NBC to come in fourth in the critical February sweeps period...
Indeed, at a time when ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are mostly airing repeats -- though "the Big Four have increased their original output this summer," notes Variety's Rick Kissell -- Univision's all-new lineup is a more attractive proposition for many viewers.
Evangelicals and proselytizing
Evangelicalism has traditionally held to the authority of the Bible and thus biblical creationism as well.
Given the historic immigration from Latin America to the U.S, consider this report about evangelicals, proselytizing and Latin America:
Evangelicals, including Pentecostals, neo-Pentecostals, and other non-mainline Protestant denominations, such as Baptists, are the fastest growing world religion by conversion. Evangelicals hold shared convictions such as the inerrancy of the Bible, proselytizing the Gospel, the divinity of Christ and personal salvation through Him. In 1960, Evangelicals numbered 89 million (2.9% of world population). By 2010 they were 546 million (7.9%) with an annual growth rate at 2.6%. In Latin America the growth of evangelicals has been dramatic since the early 20th century. In 1900 evangelicals numbered about 700,000 or 1% of the population. By 2010, they reached 91 million or 16.8% of the population. Latin American countries with the highest concentration of evangelicals are Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala. Evangelicals account for about 20% or more of the population in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. Of all evangelical subgroups, Pentecostals are the largest component with over 66 million adherents of which Brazil has the largest concentration.
Hispanic evangelicalism past and projected growth in America
According to Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life while “more than two-thirds of the 52 million-plus Latinos in the U.S. are Catholic, that number could be cut in half by 2030.” NHCLC also establishes that 35 percent of Hispanics in America now call themselves “born-again.”
Fox News reported in May 2013 concerning Hispanic evangelicalism in the United States:
Alfredo De Jesus is a fire-and-brimstone preacher who represents a global groundswell of Hispanics who've left the Catholic Church to become Protestant Evangelical Christians.
De Jesus pastors the New Life Church in Chicago, helping to expand it from 120 members in 2000 to over 17,000 today on multiple campuses.
"In the Evangelical church, we find freedom to worship, and with Hispanics, it's in us to be able to love people. Naturally, we just love people. We are hugging people," De Jesus said.
Latinos make up the largest ethnic minority in the United States — 52 million, according to latest Census stats. The majority — two-thirds — are still traditionally Roman Catholic. But there's been a palpable shift from one generation to the next, with the newer ones being "born again."
Evangelicals now number about 20 percent of the Latino population, according to the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
10 reasons atheism will decline in the United States
The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer, published in January this year, reveals a “crisis in trust” around the world in four key institutions – business, NGO’s, media and government – with media and government distrusted by more people than trusted (see: Lack of trust in media: 'magazine media could offer a blue print out' ).
Distrust of the media is at all time high, but the media still does have some influence (see: Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low ). The Media Research Center released a study in 2008 reporting pro-atheism bias by major press outlets in the United States. The study found that 80% of mainstream media coverage of atheism was positive and that 71% of Christian-themed stories had an atheist counterpoint or were written from an atheist perspective.
The Daily Mailreported about Britain's influential broadcaster the BBC:
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The BBC employs more atheists and non-believers than Christians, an internal ‘diversity’ survey has found.
The new research has been seized on by critics who accuse the Corporation of bias against Christianity and marginalising the faith in its output.
The survey found that just 22.5 per cent of all staff professed to be Christians
The media was a key ally to the New Atheism movement and helped sell a lot of books by the new atheists. But take a look at the last 20 news stories about atheism in Google news: Google news - atheism news stories
There are a lot fewer atheism news stories than the period between 2004 - 2012 (the peak of the New Atheism movement was in 2011). And the news stories that do appear are more negative than they used to be.
Generally, Google news about atheism has stories about:
1. How much people dislike atheists and closet atheism (see: Study: Atheists distrusted as much as rapists and Atheists Widely Distrusted, Even Among Themselves, UK Study Finds ). A recent study found that distrusts of atheists grew in the United States in the last 10 years. Many of these stories try to build sympathy for atheists. Many also encourage closet atheists to come out of the closet. This is obviously a hard sell given the antipathy/distrusts being directed towards atheists often being reported in the stories.
2. People and organizations criticizing atheism
3. Islamic governments imposing harsh sentences/penalties on atheists
4. Islamic fundamentalists killing or trying to kill atheists. Atheism having a social stigma in Islamic countries.
5. Some atheists trying to paint a positive spin on atheism while often admitting that atheism has a stigma. 6. Stories about the "nones" (In the USA fewer than 15%of the "nones" consider themselves atheists)
7. The erosion of secularism in various governments
8. Some stories about global atheism shrinking due to the low birth rates of the atheist population.
For the most part Google news does not paint a rosy picture of atheism.
Coverage of atheism is increasingly being squeezed out
On top of this, you have news often dominated by news about Donald Trump, Brexit, Frexist, right-wing European politics and gaining traction and the school choice movement gaining traction in America. This is definitely not good news for atheists. Why? One obvious reason is this means less coverage of atheism.
Atheism has long ceased to be a rare and oft-ignored philosophical outlook...It has transformed itself into an active political programme with clear objectives which, though they vary from state to state, unequivocally include the elimination of state religion, religious education, and the enshrinement of scientism.
Historically, atheists have screwed towards the left side of the political aisle (see: Atheists & Agnostics in America Tend to be Politically Liberal ). For example, according to the University of Cambridge, historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power." Future of press coverage of atheism/atheists Newspapers and other news organizations are facing dwindling profits and trust. In addition, scholars of religious/irreligious demographics such as Eric Kaufmann are predicting the 21st century will be a time of deseculiarization and a growth of religious fundamentalism in both developed/developing countries. The future does not look bright for news coverage of atheism.
News coverage of atheism in 2007
How Demography Is Enhancing Religious Fundamentalism
2017 is going to be a very BAD year for militant atheists.
The Secular Web website is a website run by the organization Internet Infidels and its stated aim is to promote metaphysical naturalism which is a philosophy which claims only the natural world exists and that supernatural entities/forces do not exist. As you can see above, Internet Internet Infidels is struggling in its efforts to promote atheism/naturalism on the world wide web in 2017. Center for the Study of Global Christianity expects the number of atheists in the world to shrink in 2017
Data compiled by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS):
Given the information in the resources directly above, the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, expects the global atheist population to shrink in its total number of individuals in 2017.
If CSGC is correct, then not only is the global market share for atheism going downward, but now the actual number of atheists in the world is going down as well. Specifically, CSGC is projecting that from the midpoint of 2016 to the midpoint of 2017, the total number of atheists in the world is going to go from 138,101,000 individuals to 137,041,000 individuals. That is a net loss of 60,000 atheists in the world during this period
Below are some videos by JP Moreland which examine and critique the philosophy of scientific naturalism.
