Atheism New Atheism Is Dead. What’s the New New Atheism? Far fewer British people agree with vitriolic assertions about religion. Still, disbelief in God is on the rise in both the UK and the US. Stefani McDade
“I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate,” Richard Dawkins said in 1996 to the American Humanist Association. Ten years later, in 2006, a ComRes poll found that 42 percent of UK adults agreed with this vitriolic statement. That is, two in five were not just nonbelievers; they thought all belief in God should be deliberately snuffed out.
This was near the height of the New Atheism movement—an ...
Three quarters of pet-owning Christians (75%) in the US have dogs, while less than half (43%) possess cats.
That’s according to a Pew Research Center report released this summer. In religious breakouts provided to CT, figures showed that twice as many Christian pet owners (53%) only own dogs while less than a quarter (21%) exclusively own cats. About 1 in 5 (22%) own both. The numbers track with what veterinarian Nancy Moore has observed anecdotally at Christian vet conferences.
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