I don’t hear or see very much from atheist organizations anymore. There was a time, a few years ago (actually around a decade or so) that there would be some controversy or announcement to “rally the troops” so to speak. Today, they’ve all gone silent or, and this is possible, the networks just aren’t covering them like they did in the Four Horsemen heyday. Maybe I’m just not paying attention as much as I used to in the heyday a few years (Okay, a decade or more) ago.

We can’t live in the past, but we can learn from it and use those experiences and instead of retrenching, make even more progress than we did in those few years when atheism was not as scary as it had been made out to be and yes, become something even worse in some minds when, even over the worst of the worst, atheists are held with suspicion.

I don’t think atheists need a leader, a spokesperson. We’re too individualistic for all of that nonsense and I think having some official person or even group that pretends to represent atheist opinion, would be laughable. As much today as the NAACP claims to represent black thought, or even any labor union claiming to speak for all workers. Even the media, as dense as they are, have discovered, finally, that there’s no such thing as a single opinion amongst any group.

With all that said, atheism, in the United States is growing, slowly, but growing, as it is worldwide. The percentage of people, world wide has risen from 5% in 2005 to 10% in 2025, according to Gallup.pew places the number of Americans, over a shorter period(2007-2024) people identifying as atheist has grown from 1.6% to 5%. It’s not racing along, but it is progress as the number of people that are religiously unaffiliated has grown as well. That’s not unbelief though and no one should read “religiously u affiliated” as athesit, agnotic, or anything other than what it says.

There are several major atheist organizations in the U.S. Most of the activity, thiugh, seems to happen at the local level, by local, u affiliated groups. They may be more “social group” than activist, but having a place where like minded people can gather and not have to pretend to be who they aren’t.

Where it went off the rails(in my humble opinion) was the advent, a few years ago, of Atheost Church. I umderstand the need to get together, but to momic a church service? Seriously? Well, yes they were and even major media outlets picked that story. Many of my Christian friends mocked the thought of atheists attending church. I don’t know if any Atheist Churches still exist. ut they had their(embarrassing) moment.

I think we atheists get along just fine without any pomp and circumstance of any ceremony or tradition. We certainly don’t need a single voice to speak for us becuase, if nothing else, we at least understand we are all individuals. We’ll be fine.