Is Atheism Progressive?

Exploring the social consequences of godlessness

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Is atheism for the best? Is it “all good” in the end if there’s no God?

If you were to ask the new atheists, the ones that rose to prominence in the war on Islamist terrorism after 9/11, they’d say, “Yes! Emphatically yes! Theistic religion is a blight on humanity, and atheism just frees us from many archaic…