The history of atheism: everything you wanted to know
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The Evolution of Atheism in the 20th Century
Alec Riley: Atheism is in some ways freakishly similar to how it looked 200 years ago. He says that explicit unbelief has gone from being a marginal and extreme position within living memory, to becoming the norm. His suspicion is that our modern consensus around the lack of a need for any kind of religious structure may be more fragile than we think.
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