We are told that Britain is a place of ‘tacit atheism’.
Whether it is the tragedy of St. George’s Tron being thrown out of their building for taking a stance for biblical standards or the economic recession our greed brought upon us or ongoing cover-up that seems to now be coming to light about Sir Jimmy Savile’s abuse of young girls, it is the laissez-faire attitude to morality which atheism promotes which underlies most news stories in our country.
Although atheists like to give the impression that they are very modern, avant garde and daringly radical, actually there is nothing new about saying there is no God (see Psalm 14.1, Psalm 53.1). And, interestingly, Moses, some 500 years before David the psalmist, explained one of the primary reasons for ‘forgetting God’. He warned Israel. He told them that once they entered the Promised Land they would become prosperous. The land was so fertile that their labour would produce much more than they needed. It would be then that they would be tempted towards tacit atheism. Prosperity gives us the illusion of human independence (Deuteronomy 8.11-18).
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What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …