Analysis: Atheism worldwide in decline

Two developments are plaguing atheism these days.Atheism's other Achilles heel are the acts on inhumanity and lunacy committed in its name.Atheism, he insisted, will come in at the tail end.There seems to be a growing consensus around the globe that godlessness is in trouble.His Oxford colleague Alister McGrath agrees.One is that it appears to be losing its scientific underpinnings.Flew still does not accept the God of the Bible.Zulehner cautions, however, that in the rest of Europe re-Christianization is by no means occurring.As for the peril of spirituality, Zulehner sounded quite sanguine.The great world religions are best placed, he said.