Richard Dawkins, judging by his comments, would possibly rejoice in the disappearance of religion altogether;
Your thoughts?
Once upon a time perhaps… these days…?
The quotation is from a 2010 tweet/text he launched out.
We all have ideal worlds right? Ours would be a world where people have turned toward the Cross. I’m sure his would be a world without religion.
But in
practical terms, Dawkins and the “New Atheists” have seen the Light…so to speak…
Or in my humble opinion, the 10+ year sojourn of debating and mocking us got interrupted by two issues - Radical Islam being the most obvious.
Example: Once upon a time the New Atheist could righteously scream at our Evangelical or Protestant brothers and sisters who would be saying something like “Homosexuality is Evil, you all deserve to burn in Hell.”
They’d mock each other and go back to their warm comfy homes and talk about the backwardness/immorality of the other.
The New Atheist in the Present era has to deal with this:
That’s a Homosexual Man being Executed by ISIS by being thrown off the top of a roof.
Years and year and years of Terrorist Bombings, Televised Execution, etc has kind of change the fulcrum of the movements’ opinion of us.
Are we still backward, stupid, horrible human beings to them? To a degree yes.
…
but as Richard Dawkins quote shows, we aren’t at the top of the list anymore.
The link below is to an example of this shift in opinion - it compares Christian Fundamentalism to Islamic Fundamentalism.
youtube.com/watch?v=mZIspAALwbw
Notice the tone? We are conceived “zany stupid idiots” believing in childish things. In their world view however, we are contrasted against a much darker force.
We are annoying. We shouldn’t exist. But we are overall “harmless”. Whereas our counterparts represent an existential threat to atheists.
Problem 2: Radical Left Wing Politics - Aka Social Justice Warriors
I once asked a group of rather boisterous and committed New Atheists why they were arguing with a bunch of Social Justice Warriors out near UC Berkeley. I assumed, being the religious one in the gathering, i would have been the target for the incessant polemic about Christianity.
They all pointed me to this clip.
youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60
Its New Atheist writer Sam Harris and comedian/pundit Bill Maher about to make the typical New Atheist roast of religion, this time centered on Islam, while being interrupted by Ben Affleck who basically called them “Gross and racist.”
So i followed my acquaintances down this Rabbit Hole - after all, i thought Left wing Politics and New Atheism would dovetail nicely…
Boy was I wrong…
I don’t expect you all to watch the following, i just present it as pieces of evidence.
Video entitled
How Feminism Destroyed New Atheism
youtube.com/watch?v=emrD6hTKkIY
Video:
How the Regressive Left has Become the New Religious Right
youtube.com/watch?v=2NYCJLSE7xE
Summary - basically New Atheism with its almost celebratory transgressive rhetorical nastiness bumped up against something it couldn’t criticize so directly =
Western Political Correctness Culture.
New Atheists were free to criticize Christianity… but criticizing Islam was
Racist.
New Atheists could mock any religion for not following Evolution, but were called
chauvinistic sexists by the Feminists and whatever the hell “non-binary gender” people are (sorry i don’t really get all the language) if they tried to apply Evolutionary Psychology to gender relations.
One New Atheist scientist (link above) put it this way:
"A Christian like those people from the Westboro Baptist Church could mock me, even send threatening emails to me. They can say i’ll burn in hell, they can say i’m immoral, irreprehensible human being. And the matter usually ends there.
The Feminist? She sends a letter to my employer saying i’m a chauvinistic anti-female, promoting rape culture.
The Christian can hurt my sentiments. The Feminist is seeking to get me fired and to ruin my career so i would never get ever hired by anyone ever again.
Friends - which do you think i’m going to take more seriously?"
Assessment:
Nietzsche was right
Even if you “killed God”…
Now what? 
They didn’t even make it to “Atheist Utopia” and they already started fighting and debating each other.
So yes, you’ll find some Atheists hanging around trying to debate us. If what i’ve seen is true
they are the tail end of a dying wave of interest.
I don’t mean to say that Atheists are dying off. Rather,
their interest in us is.
In a world where the fastest growing religion is one that induces capital punishment for disbelief, and the predominate political culture castigates you as harshly as an Inqusitior for saying the wrong things…we just don’t matter to the movement as a whole anymore.
They have other enemies to fight.
