(January 20, 2010 at 1:56 pm)Gilligan Wrote: If it was one reason, why so much religion immediately afterwards, then the movement?
I think it is more panic than desperation, but perhaps a bit of both. Then when the 'dust settled', people realized they'd been morons, and returned to what was normal for them and left churches and the like... which would make 'the atheist movement' seem greater than it actually is.
Just my 2 copper.

Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day