C.S. Lewis - from atheism to theism

Walter Hooper, who acted as a temporary secretary for the ex-atheist C.S.Lewis, described him as:

So humble and kind, and such a simple man. I can't imagine anyone not feeling comfortable with him... There was nothing daunting about his home or the way he lived. He was one of those fortunate people who didn't really need much to make him happy. If you had put him in a palace, he would have admired it for its beauty, but he didn't need those things... Lewis' house was so basic. There was even a hole in the floor that you had to be careful the chair didn't fall into. And the food he liked couldn't have been simpler: sausages and mashed potatoes, fish and chips

Ex-atheist C.S. Lewis on his conversion to Christianity

The ex-atheist C.S. Lewis (born November 29, 1898, Belfast - d. November 22, 1963, Oxford) was an Irish writer, novelist, essayist, moral mythologist and a world-acclaimed master of Christian apologetics. He is considered by many to have been the greatest intellectual defender of Christianity in the 20th century.

Peter Berger on the failure of the secularization hypothesis

Peter L. Berger (March 17, 1929 to June 27, 2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist best known for his work in the fields of the sociology of knowledge/religion, the study of modernization, and various theoretical contributions to sociology.

Berger's work Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New York, 1966) was declared by the International Sociological Association as being the fifth most influential book written in the field of sociology during the 20th century.

Berger is also well-know for his scholarship relating to the current desecularization of the world (often referred to as the "global resurgence of religion") despite being an advocate of the secularization theory in the 1950s/1960s.

The Resurrection Argument That Changed a Generation of Scholars - Gary Habermas

Philosophical naturalism is self-refuting

Previously, I wrote an article entitled The internet spreading reports of miracles is killing atheism and will continue to do so. Pentecostalism and evangelical Christianity are booming. Also, the healing of amputees

The philosophy of naturalism asserts that the supernatural does not exist and consequently miracles have never occurred and does not presently occur.

Below are some videos relating to the philosophy of naturalism.

Leading atheist organizations are cutting back staff

In 2017, the atheist activist Lee Moore declared:

If you look at the major atheist groups right now, like the national groups, the ones that are doing the real activist work... They are not bringing in the kind of donations they used to. Most of them are starved for cash. They're downsizing left and right. Because people aren't just giving like they used to. And I talked to a lot of the major donors out there and they said, "Well, we're kind of tired of seeing the atheist community just fight amongst itself and not really get anything done. We'd rather not give money if we don't think it's going to go somewhere.

See also:

Atheist factions

Atheism and social skills

Atheist nonprofit scandals

Career opportunities within atheist movement for racial minorities

In June 2014, the African-American atheist activist Sikivu Hutchinson wrote in the Washington Post that atheists organizations in the United States generally focus on church/state separation and creationism issues and not the concerns the less affluent African-American population faces.  Hutchinson also mentioned that church organizations do focus on helping poor African Americans. See the Washington Post article: Atheism has a big race problem that no one’s talking about

In 2015, BloombergView reported concerning the United States:

According to a much-discussed 2012 report from the Pew Research Center on Religion and Public Life, only 3 percent of U.S. atheists and agnostics are black, 6 percent are Hispanic, and 4 percent are Asian. Some 82 percent are white. (The relevant figures for the population at large at the time of the survey were 66 percent white, 11 percent black, 15 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian.) 

...Craig Keener, in his huge review of claims of miracles in a wide variety of cultures, concludes that routine rejection of the possibility of the supernaturalrepresents an impulse that is deeply Eurocentric.

On October 9, 2014, Sikivu Hutchinson indicated:

Despite frequent tokenistic calls for “diversity” within the “movement,” there are virtually no people of color in executive management positions in any of the major secular, atheist, or Humanist organizations —notable exceptions being Debbie Goddard of Center for Inquiry and Maggie Ardiente of American Humanist Association. People of color are constantly bombarded with claims of separatism, reverse discrimination, and “self-segregation” when they point to the absence of social justice, anti-racist community organizing, coalition-building, and visibility among secular organizations. After the Washington Post article, the vitriol and denialism among the “We are All Africans” white atheists was off the chain. This illustrates yet again that sticking a few of us on conference panels or secular boards is nothing but cheap appeasement.

Hutchinson also wrote:

The recent merger of the secular organization Center for Inquiry (CFI) and the Richard Dawkins Foundation (RDF) has been dubbed atheism's supergroup moment. Acknowledging the two organizations' outsized presence in the atheist world, Religion News Service acidly declared it a "royal wedding". The partnership, which gives Richard Dawkins a seat on the CFI board, smacks of a vindication of Dawkins' toxic, reactionary brand of damn-all-them-culturally-backward-Western-values-hating- MuslimsNew Atheism. As one of the most prominent global secular organizations, CFI's all-white board looks right at home with RDF's lily white boardand staff.

In 2016, Atheist Alliance International (AAI) conducted an annually reoccurring atheist census project and found:

At the time of writing, the Atheist Census Project recorded that on average worldwide 73.2% of respondents were male. The result is consistent with other research... As such, the focus of many scholarly papers has been on seeking to explain this persistent observation.

Melody Hensley 

On May 15, 2014, the Washington Post reported that Melody Hensley, executive director of the Washington branch of the Center For Inquiry, was "diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after a vicious flood of online and social media attacks that included threats of rape, murder and photographs of dismembered women. Many of her harassers, she believes, are men in the secular community."

Post Elevatorgate controversy, at an atheist convention, Rebecca Watson claimed: "Hundreds of atheists have informed me that either they wanted to rape me, someone should rape me so that I will loosen up or that no one would ever rape me because I am so ugly."

Comrades, atheism cut 50% in Russia in three years!

The website Church Militant reports:

A recent poll is showing the number of atheists in Russia has dropped by half in the last three years.  

According to the Levada Center, a Russian-based, independent, non-governmental research organization, those who consider themselves "absolutely irreligious" fell from 26 percent in 2014 to just 13 percent in 2017. As many as 44 percent described themselves as "quite religious," 33 percent as "not too religious" and 9 percent as "very religious." 

The survey was conducted in urban and rural populations within the respondent's home by a personal interview method. In June, a total of 1,600 people aged 18 and over were interviewed in 137 communities in 48 regions.