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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I come here:

https://www.amazon.com/We-Little-Faith-Stopped-Pretending-ebook/dp/B0BV7MG25G

We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) by Kate Cohen

"It’s an inspiring book that will—hopefully—push us toward a larger cultural conversation in which ‘atheism’ isn’t seen as a dirty word.”—The Humanist

"America doesn’t need more God. It needs more atheists. Here’s an impassioned call for nonbelievers to be honest with themselves and their families about their lack of belief—and help change the American cultural conversation.

Even though a growing number of Americans don’t believe in god, many remain reluctant to say so out loud. Kate Cohen argues that not only is it rewarding for those of little faith to announce themselves, it’s crucial to our country’s future.

As she details the challenges and joys of fully embracing atheism—especially as a parent—Washington Post contributing columnist Kate Cohen does not dismiss religion as dangerous or silly. Instead, she investigates religion’s appeal in order to explain the ways we can thrive without it.

Americans who don’t believe in god call themselves atheists, agnostics, humanists, skeptics, and freethinkers. Sometimes they are called “nones,” based on the box they checked on a survey identifying their religion. And sometimes they call themselves Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist.

Whatever you call yourself, if you don’t believe there’s a supernatural being in charge of the universe, it’s time to join the chorus of We of Little Faith."
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You are about two decades behind.

In the early 2000s Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris et al launched new atheism movement which intended to flush out the remnants of Christianity in western liberal culture and usher in a new movement of rationality and scientific driven atheism.

However what occurred in a largely agnostic Europe with the demise of Christianity was not a surge of rational atheism, it was an explosion of an even more fundamentalist theism, Islam. Even in the US we can see the impacts of this explosion in devout Muslims amongst a population of western atheists.

One of the most famous atheists in the world has somewhat rebuked his fight for an atheist society, now saying that he considers himself a cultural Christian and prefers living in a culturally Christian country. [/quote]

WHo is this person?  Please provide his name and a citation showing that he "has somewhat rebuked his fight for an atheist society...."

[Frankly, I never knew about a famous atheist  who was fighting for an atheist society.]

By the way, I'd rather live in a "culturally Christian" country than, for instance, a fundamentalist islamic or fundamentalist Christian country.[/quote]

It’s nice to still have that choice isn’t it? Soon enough atheist Europe will not. And you have the Christians to thank for it.[/quote]

Yes, those white christian nationalists are sure great.  :lol: 
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