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Originally Posted by filtherton
Either that or the number of atheists isn't really rising, atheism is just becoming more acceptable, so that more people are comfortable with calling themselves atheists and popular culture changes to reflect this fact.
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This is what I think. Visibility isn't the same as presence. We're more aware in the last couple of years because of profit-creating things like books, but I don't think there has been a drastic increase in the number of atheists in the general population.