Prominent atheists and internet skeptics have been attacking Christianity and only Christianity for years, decades and centuries over the premise that people should not believe any "God", which in their case, only the Abrahamic God, building their careers in it, raking money as they go and gaining notoriety for solely attacking Christians. I don't care if some of them are dead, or bed ridden, they contributed to this mess.
Was it for "promoting" logic or reason? Was it really about teaching people to have an "open mind"? I now beg to differ. Seems like atheism have been a gateway into this global Marxist pandemic we're having, considering that Marxists have been for the burning of ancient scriptures, the destruction of holy landmarks that are related to Christianity.
Sam Harris was actively against Islam. Judaism gets wrapped up into Christianity or the Abrahamic religions to keep people from getting called anti-semitic.
The wave of athiesm was I believe a multi part shift. The first part was that society had changed a lot and a lot of people didn't go to church. I won't go into specifics but really the times just changed and religion took a step back.
This is where the big athiest names came in. They wrote books, did lectures, and pushed people towards logic and science. Eventually science became the entertainment style of science like Bill Nye or NDT that was more about confirming pre-conceived notions instead of the rigorous and boring testing no one likes.
Then the LGBT groups showed up. This is what I recall of athiesm years ago. It started out with some kids get kicked from there house and need assistance to a full on takeover by lgbt and it was changed to athiesm+. The only central tenet of athiesm is not believing so I think they were an easy group for the woke crowd to take over since there's nothing binding them there and they could just leave to do something else.
I don't believe isn't a hill to die on or a philosophy that makes a coherent group. I think it's better to say that athiesm is a frame of mind and any movement was more about politics and power than anything else.