Oooh. Millions are big numbers. But just to put it all into perspective,
some random low-ranking non-entity of a godless college professor in
the most rural part of Minnesota gets about 25-30 million visits per
year, and yeah, it’s growing every year. And his site links regularly to
AiG, meaning a lot of the visitors to Ham’s precious empire are there
to laugh at him.
Alexa ranking of Freethoughtblogs which is owned by PZ Myers
Alexa ranking of Answers in Genesis website
Ken Ham's website (the Answers In Genesis Website) now has a greater Alexa ranking than PZ Myer's website.
If only PZ Myers didn't think he was random and there was a special purpose in his life. Then he might be more purposeful and intelligent in his web marketing strategies.
If only some atheist in the past built an enormous wooden structure in the past that PZ Myers could replicate and draw enormous crowds with. But atheism is boring and always will be.
Is it time to kick atheism, agnosticism when they are down?
Agnosticism is actually more prevalent than atheism although atheism gets more press.
So how is agnosticism doing in the world?
How is atheism doing in the world right now?
How is evolutionism doing in the world right now?
How is Jesus doing in the world right now? Is Jesus triumphing like he always does?
Is it time to ramp up creationist fundraising/outreach and crush godlessness like an aluminum can?
In 2015, Pew Research indicated in their report The Future of World
Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050 that agnostics and
atheists “will make up a declining share of the world’s total
population.”
The Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
estimated that agnostics made up 9.5% of the global population in 2015.
CSGC projects that agnosticism will be 8.71% of the global population
in 2025 and 7.19% of the global population in 2050
Atheism is in decline worldwide, with the number of atheists falling
from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and
projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the
Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass.
The prominent historian Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch, professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University, indicates that he believes Christianity faces a "bright future" worldwide. According to MacCulloch, "Christianity, the world's largest religion, is
rapidly expanding – by all indications, its future is very bright."
Professor Phillip Jenkins published the book The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity.
As Penn State professor Philip Jenkins writes in The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, predictions like Huntingtons betray an ignorance of the explosive growth of Christianity outside of the West.
For instance, in 1900, there were approximately 10 million Christians
in Africa. By 2000, there were 360 million. By 2025, conservative
estimates see that number rising to 633 million. Those same estimates
put the number of Christians in Latin America in 2025 at 640 million and
in Asia at 460 million.
According to Jenkins, the percentage of the worlds population
that is, at least by name, Christian will be roughly the same in 2050 as
it was in 1900. By the middle of this century, there will be three
billion Christians in the world -- one and a half times the number of
Muslims. In fact, by 2050 there will be nearly as many Pentecostal
Christians in the world as there are Muslims today
Professor Eric Kaufmann told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."
The main ideological supply line of atheism/agnosticism is Darwinism. And Darwinism is vulnerable. Johns Hopkins University Press reported in 2014: "Over the past forty years, creationism
has spread swiftly among European Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus,
and Muslims, even as anti-creationists sought to smother its flames."
General Douglas MacArthur
declared: "The history of war proves that nine out of ten times an army
has been destroyed because its supply lines have been cut off...”
Answers In Genesis has put a lot of effort into fundraising. However, I think there is room for a lot of improvement for other creationist ministries. And its very doable. It just a matter of time before they do it - especially when Christendom sees the success of the combined effects of the Answers In Genesis website, the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter. I think Answers In Genesis is going to have a lot of forward momentum post Ark Encounter. Furthermore, and more importantly, evangelical Christianity is a fast growing and very evangelistic religion in the world and most evangelicals are staunch creationists. And global creationism is on the rise.
So is it time for Christendom to ramp up creationist fundraising and outreach and crush godlessness like an aluminum can?
Please look at the Google trends graph below after it finishes loading.
Atheists, agnostics and evolutionists.. Get ready. It's coming!
The negative isms of atheism, agnosticism, Darwinism and evolutionism will be crushed like an aluminum can just other negative isms in history.
By the way, can you satisfactorily answer the 15 questions for evolutionists AFTER clicking on the links for the supporting articles and videos on the page so you make an informed answer? I don't think you can! Click on the 15 questions for evolutionists HERE.
Recently, I said the effects of New Atheism on the USA may be over by about 2021 which is about 5 years. It now appears as if it may only take about 3 years or even less.
I say this for 6 reasons.
1. Correlation does not equal causation. I read that some irreligion trends were occurring even before the New Atheism appeared on the scene. So the effects of the New Atheism movement may have been minimal. In addition, read this article American faith: A work in progress which is skeptical that the New Atheism had much of an impact:
2. New Atheism appears to be gobbled up by feminism/SJWism ("social justice warriorism")/political correctness within atheism as this story indicates: The Collapse of New Atheism.
Feminism has an element of trendiness too as this roller coaster Google trends graph helps show, but feminism did help to largely kill off New Atheism. In addition, political pendulums do have a tendency to swing back and forth in the United States and there does appear to be a growing backlash against "political correctness" and right-wing candidates are gaining traction in many elections around the world.
On the other hand, different brands of atheism are often reactionary to various types of theism/politics so perhaps SJW has some legs for awhile. But given the roller coaster nature of feminism in society and the fickleness of the fairer sex, I have my doubts about feminism/SJW type atheism lasting. I think it is largely a fad.
3. Economic instability increases religiosity and the global/U.S. economy seems fragile right now.
4. Furthermore, there are some powerful global trends in terms of a global resurgence of religion and in an age of globalization, this could certainly have an effect on the United States,
5. The NewAtheism caused a surge of anti-atheism defenses of Christianity being published in print and on the internet. Now it seems as if Answers In Genesis may see a big surge in publicity due to their Ark Encounter exhibit which is an impressive and fairly close replication of Noah's Ark (It does have a restaurant in itwhich I doubt Noah had). And I am not sure if the Amish who helped built the Ark Encounter used the mysterious wood of gopher wood!
I liken the New Atheism inspired Christian anti-atheism works to be similar to the United States battle with Japan in WWII. They intellectually conquered a lot of islands on the way to "Japan"/atheism, but the "mainland" of ideological underpinnings of modern day atheism/agnosticism is Darwinism.
(Perhaps, it might be better said that Christians reconquered many islands on the way to "Japan/atheism" as the Christian vs. atheism battle is a battle that has been going on the West for about 400 years. Admittedly, new arguments do come forth. Although the New Atheism brand of atheism was largely a marketing tactic as much of it was not new.)
Darwinism is intellectually bankrupt as these 15 questions for evolutionists help show. Creationist have a lot of excellent content at this point. If they just amped up its distribution into the marketplace of ideas, I think this would have an effect.
Consider:
Johns Hopkins University Press reported in 2014: "Over the past forty years, creationism
has spread swiftly among European Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus,
and Muslims, even as anti-creationists sought to smother its flames."
On February 24, 2015, the Science Nordic website declared:
Creationism, the belief that a god -- not evolution -- shaped life on
Earth, is ... spreading in the very stronghold of evolution, Europe.
That’s the conclusion of five years of research that’s been put into new
book on creationism. The book details how creationism is on the march
throughout most of Europe.
"Creationism is most dominant in Eastern Europe and Turkey, but even
some schools in the Netherlands are teaching creationism," says one of
the book’s authors Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, University College South
Denmark. "Politicians in some German federal states are advocating that
schools use creationist books alongside those about evolutionary theory
in their lessons. This kind of struggle is going on on a small scale in
many places."...
"Over the last ten years we’ve seen the emergence of big-city creationism. London is a good example," says Kjærgaar.
Here, noticeably more young people have been signed up to various local and religious groups.
"And this doesn't just apply to young Muslims as many people might think. Christian groups are also recruiting young people...
Creationism has particularly been on the rise in step with the
internet, which according to Peter Kjærgaard has made it much easier for
people to become activists..
Darwinism has public schools supporting it. On the other hand, homeschooling and the use of vouchers for private religious schools is increasing and many people are becoming dissatisfied with the quality of public schools. Given aging populations in the West and accompanying tight government budgets, privatization of public schools (which is more economical) could gain further traction though increased use of homeschooling vouchers, etc. Necessity is often the mother of invention so societies may become less reliant on the public school model of education.
6. The percentage of Americans who say they believe in God has recently seen an uptick according to a recent report by the Gallup organization, but perhaps this is a sampling error as Gallup says "the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level."
In the last couple years, American atheism has been in the doldrums. The dust has settled from Richard Dawkins being routed by feminists and the death of the late Christopher Hitchens. Now a spirit of pessimism, apathy and defeatism weighs down the psyches of many American atheists.
Given the shrinking of global atheism in terms of its percentage of adherents, American atheism is running out of runway in terms of ever achieving cultural dominance. The flood of religious immigrants to Europe is a testimony the power of globalization.
Atheism is in decline
worldwide, with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s
population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by
2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global
Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton,
Mass.
And it looks like 2016 will be a BAD year for American atheism.
First sign: Google trends: Searches for the terms "atheism" and "atheist" in the last 12 months
Please allow time for the Google trends graphs to download below. The graphs will download momentarily.
Second sign: The Atheist Delusion video will be released in 2016 and receive millions of views
In 2005 Denmark
was ranked the third most atheistic country in the world and the
website adherents.com reported that in 2005 43 - 80% of Danes were agnostics/atheists/non-believers in God
The 2003 book entitled Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem written by authors Rahel Nardos; Mary K. Radpour; William S. Hatcher and Michael L. Penn, declared:
The largest source of commercial child pornography is Denmark. Denmark
became the world's leading producer of child pornography when, in 1969,
it removed all restrictions on the production and sale of any type of
pornographic material. "The result," notes Tim Tate, "was a short-lived
explosion in adult pornography, and the birth of commercial child
pornography. In his work, Tate links the global spread of child
pornography to two men: Willy Strauss, founder of Bambina Sex, the
world's first child-pornography magazine, founded in 1971; and Peter
Theander, founder of Colour Climax Corporation and the producer of a
short, professionally made pornographic film series entitled Lolita.
Lolita depicts the sexual abuse of prepubescent boys and girls. Although
Danish law at the time rendered the work of Strauss and Theander legal,
by 1979 when Denmark finally banned the production and sale of child
pornography it had already become such a financial success on the
international market that it has proven to be nearly impossible to bring
its spread under control. (source: Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem written by authors Rahel Nardos; Mary K. Radpour; William S. Hatcher and Michael L. Penn, page 59, 2003.).
Suzanne Ost, in her 2009 book Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses published by Cambridge University Press, wrote about the child pornography created by Denmark/Holland during this period:
Taylor and Quayle note that the material produced during this period
still constitutes the largest part of child pornography that is
currently available, having been transferred into digital format and
uploaded onto the interne (source: Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses by Suzanne Ost, Cambridge University Press, page 29, 2009).
In 2014, according to Danish journalist Margit Shabanzahen, a Danish man
who ran a business catering to people who have sex with horses said
that he had buses of people arriving at his business.
Bestiality is having a weird renaissance in Europe. Perhaps ironically,
it kicked off when activists succeeded in banning the practice in places
like Germany and Norway. In the background, something else emerged
simultaneously: an animal-sex-tourism industry, which has been blossoming in Denmark.
Is it any wonder the European share of the world's population is going to shrink in the 21st century due to sub-replacement levels of births. Instead of having sexual relations with each other, an embarrassing amount of irreligious Europeans are having sex with animals.
According to a 2010 Eurobarometer poll, 33% of Finnish citizens "believe there is a God". (In 2005, the figure was 41%)
A prominent Finnish news website reported in July of 2015:
Finland is indeed a last bastion of bestiality. Here a person can have
sex with an animal as long as the animal is not harmed. The absence of
legislation against bestiality makes the nation one of the last in the
European Union not to institute a legal ban.
As the law currently stands in Finland, a person can engage in sexual
intercourse with an animal as long as it cannot be proved that the
animal has been treated too roughly or cruelly or that the act has
caused unnecessary pain and suffering.
..Finland legalised bestiality in 1971, following in the
footsteps of other European countries. It was thought that criminalising
the act was not the right way to deal with people who are likely to
suffer from mental illness or who are simply lonely.
President Tarja Halonen has characterised loneliness as a real and
serious problem faced by all age groups in Finland. Her comments came in
a TV address opening the annual Collective Responsibility fundraising
campaign.
She reminded her audience of their responsibility for relatives and
others. Dialogue was the answer, she said. The President called for
efforts to combat both loneliness and marginalisation during periods of
economic hardship...
Change in society had been so rapid that support measures
designed to help young people had not kept pace with modern society.
Halonen demanded that all means be applied to promote the well being of
youth and to protect them from marginalisation and other risk factors
Lonelinsss is a big problem in secular Europe. A problem that could be solved via Christian fellowship. And the problem is going to get worse with Europe's aging population where many of the families don't keep in contact with their elderly relatives.
Most of the world's men turn to sweet ladies when they are lonely. Many godless Europeans have turned to animals in a most unbecoming manner!
Although the New Atheism movement (which is a form of militant atheism) is a shadow of its former self, it did create some increased public discussion about atheism in America.
The God Delusion is a 2006 best-selling book by the new atheist Richard Dawkins which advocates atheism/agnosticism and criticizes religion. Although its critics rightly pointed out the book was shallow intellectually and contained many factual errors, it did sell a lot of copies.
If you look at the data below, which includes a Google trends USA graph for the word "atheist", a case can be made that the effects of New Atheism movement and the book The God Delusion may be
largely over by 2021 in the United States.
Current low morale of the atheist movement
In the latter portion of the 20th century and continuing into the 21st
century, due to various historical events/trends, the atheist movement
has had lower confidence/morale (see: Low morale of the atheist movement).
Google trends graph:: Searches for the word "atheist" at Google USA
Global resurgence of religion. Lower confidence of secularists
On July 24, 2013, CNS News reported:
“
Atheism is in decline worldwide,
with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population
in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020,
according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global
Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton,
Mass."[17]
”
The agnostic Eric Kaufmann
is a professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London and
author. As noted above, his academic research specialty is how demographic changes affect religion/irreligion and politics.
Kaufmann wrote in 2010:
“
Worldwide, the march of religion
can probably only be reversed by a renewed, self-aware secularism.
Today, it appears exhausted and lacking in confidence... Secularism's
greatest triumphs owe less to science than to popular social movements
like nationalism, socialism and 1960s anarchist-liberalism.
Ironically, secularism's demographic deficit means that it will
probably only succeed in the twenty-first century if it can create a
secular form of 'religious' enthusiasm." [18]
”
In 2012, Eric Kaufmann indicated:
“
I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious.
On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia has very low
fertility and a rapidly aging population... In the coming decades, the
developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its
service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people
in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the
secular West which will import religious revival on the back of ethnic
change. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher
birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far
larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration
gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch),
Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British.
[19]
”
Kaufmann told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are
happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to
affect us."[20]
Austria: Leading indicator of European desecularization
Concerning the future of religion/secularism in Europe, Eric Kaufmann also wrote:
“
We have performed these unprecedented analyses on several cases. Austria
offers us a window into what the future holds. Its census question on
religious affiliation permits us to perform cohort component
projections, which show the secular population plateauing by 2050, or as
early as 2021 if secularism fails to attract lapsed Christians and new
Muslim immigrants at the same rate as it has in the past. (Goujon,
Skirbekk et al. 2006).
This task will arguably become far more difficult as the supply of
nominal Christians dries up while more secularisation-resistant Muslims
and committed rump Christians comprise an increasing share of the
population.[22]
