2013’s Year of Faith Badly Needed After 2012

Year of Faithlessness?

BY TOM HOOPES

Most of the Church’s Year of Faith will take place in 2013, and it comes just in time — because 2012 was the "Year of Faithlessness."

The year saw a surge in anti-religious sentiment that is beginning to look like a new atheistic ethos. It wasn’t just words either — the federal government took actions to curtail believers’ freedoms as atheists activated political operations in every state.

This year, the old stories about the "war on Christmas" seemed almost quaint. Atheists succeeded in stripping nursing homes of Christmas trees and erected billboards like the one in Times Square: "Keep the Merry — Dump the Myth." 

The billboard was part of an atheist "You Know It’s a Myth" anti-God campaign.

But atheists didn’t just proselytize in 2012. They also pressed to impose their beliefs legislatively. In this election year, attacks on the very idea of God entered political debate as never before.

The Jan. 25 edition of the U.K. Guardian proved to be a prelude of things to come.

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