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New Atheism
New Atheism is a social and political movement that began in the early 2000s in favour of atheism and secularism promoted by a collection of modern atheist writers who have advocated the view that "religion should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized, and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises". There is uncertainty about how much influence the movement has had on religious demographics worldwide. In England and Wales, the increase in atheist groups, student societies, publications and public appearances coincided with the non-religious being the largest growing demographic, followed by Islam and Evangelicalism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Census 2011: religion, race and qualifications - see how England & Wales have changed )〕
New Atheism lends itself to and often overlaps with secular humanism and antitheism, particularly in its criticism of what many New Atheists regard as the indoctrination of children and the perpetuation of ideologies.
==History==
The 2004 publication of ''The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason'' by Sam Harris, a bestseller in the US, marked the first of a series of popular bestsellers. Harris was motivated by the events of September 11, 2001, which he laid directly at the feet of Islam, while also directly criticizing Christianity and Judaism. Two years later Harris followed up with ''Letter to a Christian Nation'', which was also a severe criticism of Christianity. Also in 2006, following his television documentary ''The Root of All Evil?'', Richard Dawkins published ''The God Delusion'', which was on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for 51 weeks.
In a 2010 column entitled ''Why I Don't Believe in the New Atheism'', Tom Flynn contends that what has been called "New Atheism" is neither a movement nor new, and that what was new was the publication of atheist material by big-name publishers, read by millions, and appearing on best-seller lists.
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