After we recently had a go over the old auteur theory/death of the author scuffle, I was thinking about something: I have noticed a strong preference among atheists for the philosophies and even aesthetics (thinking back to the art contest I used to run on SC) of modernism, and a noticeable disdain for postmodernism and everything connected to it. Is there a logical connection, or is this merely a meaningless correlation?
relic - an object surviving from an earlier time
I'd argue no. Atheism/Agnosticism is the logical conclusion of materialism.
Theism exists because, historically, living things were presumed to have a spiritual essence, which was a natural extension of a creator/divine nature of the universe. In lieu of a materialistic answer, people just presumed a spiritual world because it was apparently obvious.
Enter science where we realize living things can be explained via the laws of nature. This is the materialistic answer that our ancestors didn't have available to them.
Basically, our new technical capacity was able to give us answers we didn't previously have. Atheism is just a natural extension of that, it has nothing to do with philosophy or any fields.