Should we compare American Atheism and American Christianity?: An Impromptu Twitter Discussion

The following conversation emerged on Twitter between myself and Per D. Smith, a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University. Check out Per’s great stuff over at irritually. Per specializes in studying irreligion and so I sent him a link to a CNN article and, well, click on the storify link and you can see what ensued.

[View the story "Atheism, Humanism, Prosperity Gospel, and the Mainline" on Storify]

The question I’m left with is this: Is there a force within American society/culture that is shaping atheists and Christians in similar ways such that evangelicals look like New Atheists and old school humanists look like the mainline? What could it be? How could we find it? Is it the market? Politics? What?

What do yall think?

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One Comment on “Should we compare American Atheism and American Christianity?: An Impromptu Twitter Discussion”

  1. On Comparing Atheism and Religion: A Brief Conversation « irritually says:

    [...] there it is. I’m OK with some level of comparison after all, and with that in mind I give you Michael J. Altman’s blog post, in which he links a storify rendering of our twitter conversation: The following conversation [...]


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