>>507317759 (OP)Around 2014-16 and the paradigm shift killed it. They lost the "down to earth rationalist" aesthetic, since a lot of down turned out to be extremely progressive and their view's were even crazier than that of the average creationist. Also the decline of religion didn't bring in an egalitarian liberal utopia, the West just became degenerate and declined on all fronts. Plus a lot of them pushed the "one race the human race" egalitarian bullshit and called religious people Hitler 2.0 for opposing multiculturalism for years, supported childlesness & hedonism, lgbt shit, censoring & deplatforming "chuds" etc. both in the online community and irl atheism by asociation became uncool.
Not just talking about the internet and irl atheists normie pseuds, I mean the intellectuals too, Dawkins & co pushed most of this shit, Dawkins only criticized trannyism and Islam sometimes, the rest of the progressive shit he's on board with.
Plus if you check out stuff like Hitchen's books, most of the criticism of Christianity boils don't too "Did ya know that Christianity isn't liberal, DID YA??"
Now that more people are leaving that paradigm, the claims like "Uhh Christianity is xenophobic and anti lgbt" are just met with "Ok, and?"