Do you remember when the New Atheism was at its peak? Do you remember when the so-called “Four Horsemen” of the movement were writing book after book that proclaimed and celebrated the death of Christianity and, indeed, the death of religion? Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris became household names and seemed to have standing invitations to appear on the nightly talk shows. You could hear their bold denunciations of faith, witness their popularity, sense their swagger, and easily begin to think that—in the West, at least—the end of religion was finally at hand.
Though that was not too long ago, it seems like ancient history. It seems like it must have been decades or centuries ago, not merely a handful of years. I am leery to declare any kind of formal “vibe shift” or outright transformation of the culture, but what’s clear is that these men and their followers were far too quick to declare that modern man had evolved beyond any need or desire for religion. And it is equally clear that they began to see that a world without religion is not a world they would want to
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