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Because there is less prosecution for atheists these days. Less pressure from the government and families to believe in a certain doctrine (although there is still pressure in some places). Also, communism instated Atheism as the state religion, seeing as how Marx described religion as the opiate of the masses. Lastly, with science some people feel that mysticism no longer has a place in their lives since everything has a rational explanation.
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Everything in the first answer is true, though I think it is prudent to note that the biggest reason is probably science. Deities are usually put in place to explain things that couldn't be explained at the time (Zeus was the reason for lightning, for example). Now that we have an explanation for lightning, we no longer need Zeus.
At this point, god has been relegated, by anyone who understands enough science, that the only place for him anymore is untestable areas with assertions about God making the Big Bang happen and having a heaven/hell to go to after we die. We now know a deity is not needed to make a star, planet, life, sentience, and other major things previously attributed to him/her. So, logically at this point god can only be a "clockmaker" who started the universe via the Big Bang and hasn't interfered since (which makes him negligible), or simply doesn't exist. Either would give the same amount of evidence we have today: none.
As science continues to progress, there is less and less need for God (as shown in the previous paragraph, he's nonexistent or negligible already), and with advancements in global communication, polling studies, and such it becomes more an more apparent that organised religion is generally a corrupting influence that is a detriment to society.
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