Christianity seems to have had a comeback. I'm still atheist. And firmly so, no doubts.
I'm not really inclined to try to convince anybody of it though, and never understood why Dawkins tried to take that on. Too hard. You have to understand a hell of a lot of psychology, not just science, and he doesn't have that part of the necessary aptitude.
Generally I think people's religious beliefs are their own private business.
But there is an exception that has been growing. I think religious thinking is a primary reason for much of the clearly amoral violence in the world.... the belief that God chose your people and not those other people. Seen by the actions of Israel, by the actions of extreme Islam (global caliphate crap). Christians seem to be the least bad, at least most of them.
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