Is Atheism on the rise?

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Maybe when religion is all but dead in the west, people in the east will start to realize it's not doing them any favours.

Actually, religion has been dead for quite a long time in China. The Communist Party might have been dipshits, but they at least did one good thing. The banned all religion because they believed that it didn't allow society to advance.

Hmm, I see. I wouldn't personally advocate forcing the end of it, although I do agree it can hold back society.

I was thinking of the places hopelessly overrun by theocracy, and daring to hope for a gradual attitude change.