No.1 Christianity Expert: The Truth About Christianity! The Case For Jesus (Historian's Proof)

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The New Atheism Bubble Has Burst

In the early 2000s, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett dominated Western discourse. Their books promised intellectual liberation from the "shackles of religiosity." Stephen Bartlett himself was pulled in at 18, abandoning his Christian upbringing for agnosticism. But Wesley Huff argues that new atheism worked far better in print than in practice. It planted seeds that grew into trees bearing bitter fruit: a world stripped of transcendent meaning. By 2024, the trend reversed. Bible sales hit a 21-year high in the U.S.—19 million units sold. Weekly Bible reading among adults jumped 12% in a single year. Gospel music streams surged 20%. Huff thinks this isn't coincidence. We live in the most connected era in history, yet isolation has never felt heavier. Expressive individualism told young people to be their own boss, stand on their own two feet, get remote jobs, delay relationships. The result? Gen Z has the highest rates of anxiety and depression on record. Huff believes humans were created for community, reflecting the relational nature of a triune God—Father, Son, Holy Spirit. The new atheist promise of utopia without God has instead delivered a vacuum. And people are starting to ask: if science can't explain why three pounds of gray matter comprehend the universe, or why injustice makes our throats tighten, maybe the answer isn't more materialism. Maybe it's rediscovering the Judeo-Christian ethic that built the West in the first place.