For most of its existence, atheism had to seek out an enemy to oppose. But it had an unwitting ally in the intellectual leadership of the mainline denominations and revisionist theologians. Its high point was the removing of Bible reading and prayer from public schools in 1963. (162-63)The mainline denominations have suffered massive declines while churches that adapt to their populations and communicate in ways that connect with needs have grown. Many mainline ideas were so adapted to the ideas of modernity that they were fatally compromised by the death of modernity and the rise of postmodernity, which reacted against almost every aspect of modernity. (164)
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Alister McGrath is quite a perceptive commentator of church issues. What he is saying is that with the rise of post-modern culture, atheism which is very much a product of modernity, is also on the way out. What we are seeing with the raves of Dawkins and his ilk is the death throes of a non-belief system which was never logical and never had anything to offer the human spirit.
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