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I think it is due to several factors:
* pop culture and the domination of entertainment (firstly by capitalism, then by left-wingers and feminists), fuelled especially by protests against the Vietnam War, the "sexual revolution", and the hippies' counter-culture.
* association with negative events (like"[fundamentalist Christian pastors":](https://www.vox.com/2015/11/10/9707034/starbucks-red-cup-controversy), "[homophobes":](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/church-pastor-lgbt-people-killed-death-grayson-fritts-baptist-a8958846.html), evangelicals' support for Israel and "[the risk of World War III":](https://www.globalresearch.ca/millions-of-evangelical-christians-want-to-start-world-war-iii-to-speed-up-the-second-coming/29362)
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* atheism becoming tolerated and popular, especially due to scientific discoveries and mass media. (also due to anger over certain politicians like George Bush and abortion clinic bombers leading to"[atheists being more rude":](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism#Scientism,_accusations_of_evangelicalism_and_fundamentalism) to Christians as their "freedom" and "revenge against persecution")
Perhaps if the Americans focused more on education instead of war, politics, and corporatism, they would have made Christianity stable, like how Islam remains stable in Malaysia in spite of modernisation.
Since the more prominent atheists in America tend to be rude people who think "religion should not deserve any respect for its cruelty/oppression", and who tend to show up at Internet comment websites, sometimes I think that they and their attitude should represent atheism in general. After all, there are not many atheists over here in Malaysia, so they are not dominant enough to be the loudest nuisance in Malaysian society.
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I think it is due to several factors:
* pop culture and the domination of entertainment (firstly by capitalism, then by left-wingers and feminists), fuelled especially by protests against the Vietnam War, the "sexual revolution", and the hippies' counter-culture.
* association with negative events (like
* atheism becoming tolerated and popular, especially due to scientific discoveries and mass media. (also due to anger over certain politicians like George Bush and abortion clinic bombers leading to
Perhaps if the Americans focused more on education instead of war, politics, and corporatism, they would have made Christianity stable, like how Islam remains stable in Malaysia in spite of modernisation.
Since the more prominent atheists in America tend to be rude people who think "religion should not deserve any respect for its cruelty/oppression", and who tend to show up at Internet comment websites, sometimes I think that they and their attitude should represent atheism in general. After all, there are not many atheists over here in Malaysia, so they are not dominant enough to be the loudest nuisance in Malaysian society.