The death knell of religion has been sounding for centuries now, notably by those enlightened secularists; Machiavelli, Voltaire, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzche, Lenin et al.
WRT Voltaire, atheist, French author, humanist, rationalist (1694 - 1778), he held up a copy of the Bible in the air and smugly proclaimed, "In 100 years this book will be forgotten and eliminated...". Shortly after his death, Voltaire’s private residence became the headquarters of the Geneva Bible Society and became a major distribution hub for the very Bible he assigned to extinction. It later became the headquarters for the British and Foreign Bible Society. This fool Frenchman made a vain boast. And now for eternity he shares the fate of all the fools who have continuously rejected God prior to their first death.