The Archbishop of Canterbury seems to think so. Mind you, he's got eyebrows that look like steers' horns and he dresses like Johnny Cash, but he thinks atheism is the new cool thing.
I think he's just speculating and scapegoating. Maybe church attendance is dropping because people just don't see the point of going to church.
There certainly wouldn't be much point in going to Archdruid Rowan's church. By the eighteenth century it had lost anything in the way of definite beliefs and had become a dumping ground for the least competent sons of the aristocracy.
I think he's just speculating and scapegoating. Maybe church attendance is dropping because people just don't see the point of going to church.
eudaimonia,
Mark
Perhaps it's a sign that religion has become a kind of special olympics, one where the leaders of boring, uninspiring organizations whose ideology - some 400 years past its due date - blame atheists for their troubles.
We cooled it up, probably with sex symbols like Ricky Gervais.
