2 Timothy, Chapter 3
3 But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away....7 always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.
'nuff said. Personally, I'm not afraid of atheism, I realize the reason that many turn to it, rather than deal with false religion. God will judge those whose hearts aren't in the right place, and for those just haven't be able to learn the truth, he understands that, too. But the fact that the world is the way it is, and the way people are, and and where the world is headed, it has already been clearly outlined in the bible...