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Whats The Story With Atheism

December 25, 2007

Is atheism the new opiate of the masses? The momentum for this question had begun long before the new Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, this week answered the BBC Radio 5 Live question, “Do you believe in God?”, with a simple: “No.” It was already under way before everyone forgot to feel affronted by the influx of seasonal e-cards wishing us all a Happy Holiday, and then comprehensively failed to notice that the mighty M&S had left out Jesus from its 2007 Christmas card collection.

The traditional Christmas school holiday period had already morphed into “Winterval” in an increasing number of Scottish local authorities.

Earlier this month, a survey commissioned by the public theology think-tank Theos revealed that more than one-quarter of British adults could not identify Bethlehem as Jesus’s birthplace, guessing Nazareth or Jerusalem instead. Only 12% could answer all four questions about the Christmas story correctly.

The Theos survey followed an earlier Sunday newspaper revelation that only one in five schools planned to perform a Nativity play this year. The apparent de-Christianising of modern multicultural Britain compelled at least one commentator yesterday to describe 2007 as the year “the swelling tide of unbelief crashed further through the structures of our cultural architecture”.

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