At the present moment throughout the entire world, the atheists are extremely numerous. Thus the material world is becoming more and more godless, and consequently everything is in a disturbed condition. If this continues, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will certainly take action, as He did in the case of the demon Hiranyakasipu. The demons should therefore be careful and curtail their godless civilization. Otherwise they are doomed. The godless civilization can be destroyed at any moment.

Extracts from Srila Prabhupada’s Srimad-Bhagavatam (7.8.31) purport