People realized none of the claims the New Atheists made about religion were actually true, and began to see how the New Atheists were just as dogmatic as the religious people they hated.
It was the "Atheism plus" movement that killed it.
When a bunch of marxists tried to turn it from being about relentlessly debunking religious arguments to being about progressive politics. When supposed atheists began making excuses for islamists.
That was when all the sane people - myself included - bailed.
The final nail in the coffin was hammered in by none other than Richard Dawkins himself, when he publicly concluded that he had begun to see Christianty - as flawed as it was - as 'a bulwark against something worse'. That was at the start of 2016.
It was the "Atheism plus" movement that killed it.
When a bunch of marxists tried to turn it from being about relentlessly debunking religious arguments to being about progressive politics. When supposed atheists began making excuses for islamists.
That was when all the sane people - myself included - bailed.
The final nail in the coffin was hammered in by none other than Richard Dawkins himself, when he publicly concluded that he had begun to see Christianty - as flawed as it was - as 'a bulwark against something worse'. That was at the start of 2016.