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Unfortunately, I think you are right.
Even as we see adherence to xtianity slowly dying off, I'm not sure I am seeing evidence that people are getting any better at spotting logical fallacies and not falling under the spell of cults like donvict/qanon (and conservatism/Republicanism in general), Randroidism or being duped by ridiculous conspiracy theories. Which is weird, because even as it's become nearly frictionless to do a quick check on something whether it's by your favorite search engine or an LLM, it's like people refuse to do exactly that, and instead wait for whatever their modern version of a guru (lying liars on Faux, Youtube feeds, IG, podcasts, etc...) tells them to think about the matter.
As much as I hated the hot take from the bothsiderist types about the "new atheists" and claiming any atheism was just another religion ( 🙄 demonstrating they don't really understand definitions ) I do think the South Park episode where they lampoon all of that was probably not too far from the mark...meaning the future part where there is a war between different factions of atheism...I mean, given the way the typical person approaches these things. It's like some people really desperately want someone else to do all of their thinking for them.