[Simon Green]

Religion does play a far less important role in the average person’s life in the Western world (particularly Europe) than it did a century ago. Speaking strictly on a personal level, I grew up with minimal exposure to religion, and was an agnostic by it adulthood and shortly thereafter an atheist (and remain so to this day).

I certainly wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the material progress of the last two centuries, as the article does. The average person on earth is far better off than they were 200 years ago by virtually any measure.

[RitaOK]

This “Material difference” is proving itself the path to Hell, unfortunately. That, and stepping over women in the churches and academia, puffed up and shuffling men to the heavy lifting and grounds keeping, filling their time being “in charge “, but abandoning their own duty to husband, nurturing children. See the Hollywood generation in plain sight, on football fields, and now graduating their own kids from highschools in the same sorry shape.

[Big Red Badger]

Atheists,,,
I shudder at the thought of
“No God”.
This planet would be
Without Any restraint
Whatsoever.
No reflection on You Simon.
Each one of us are responsible
To Ourselves.

[Monterrosa-24]

The author of this article, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was also an atheist as a young man. His experiences as an officer in the Red Army during World War II, his eight years in the Gulag, his bout with severe cancer during internal exile, his rise to fame during Khrushchev’s regime, his exile from the Soviet Union after receiving the Nobel Prize, and his triumphant return to Russia made him the literary giant of the 20th Century. His return to God was extraordinary.