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Atheism Is Fading, But This Uglier Beast Is Taking Its Place

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Today’s prodigal sons have squandered their wealth to wallow in occultism. It is time for Catholics to repent of our bland deism, boldly proclaim Jesus Christ and his Church, and call our brothers and sisters home.

“Our technological and secularized world is full of magicians, occultism, spiritualism, astrologers, sellers of spells and amulets, and unfortunately real satanic sects. Chased out the door, the devil has come back, one might say, through the window. Chased out of faith, he returns with superstition. And if you are superstitious, you are unconsciously dialoguing with the devil.” —Pope Francis



Big Atheism has failed. The three-headed monster of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens published countless tomes mocking the idea of God as their acolytes in the media gleefully predicted a tidal wave of atheism submerging the tallest spires of Christendom.

The great wave, however, ebbed into nothingness. In 1970, Pew reported that atheists made up 3% of the American population. By 2023, that number was 4%. It turns out that convincing people they are an accidental speck on a desolate rock hurtling through meaningless space is a tough sell.

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