Source: Reason
by Emma Camp
“As the decline in religious attendance has slowed, the past few years have also seen a clear rise in the status of religion. It’s becoming more and more socially acceptable to be religious in elite intellectual spaces — something that could have a real impact on how religion is perceived by everyone else. This is a big change from the past few decades, in which internet ‘new atheism’ effectively framed religion, Christianity in particular, as fundamentally anti-intellectual and subtly low-class. … Today, one can belong to the ideas-making class — an aspiring public intellectual or artist — and still be religious, so long as one steers clear of evangelical kitsch.” (08/06/25)
https://reason.com/2025/08/06/how-the-elite-changed-its-mind-on-christianity/