Here in America, too. This morning, pastor spoke of two types of atheism: the overt, “scientific” flavor, expressed by men like Dawkins; the other, more religious-tinged that shows no fear of “the man upstairs”.
Both deny the God of creation and holiness.
Instead, we ought to have the attitude of David in Psalm 139....one of awe and healthy fear of the Almighty.
I usually group atheists into two categories.
Nietzschean & Post-modern.
The Nietzscheans are honest people. They carry their logic out to its full conclusion, find no meaning to life, find no good or evil, and usually fall into depression or psychosis, as Nietzche himself did. These people are very honest.
The post-moderns or ‘new atheists’, are individuals who seek to either make money through mockery, avoid any kind of moral judgement (unless they deem it to be important to them), or cling to ideas that don’t compute with atheism, holding to ridiculous philosophies like contractarianism etc. These people are very dishonest.
In the end, atheism is the tool of the statist, and one of the most invaluable in his arsenal as he assaults liberty and truth. Stalin found his soldiers to be very reliable when ordered to torture beyond imagination. All he had to do was remove from them a sense of morality grounded in the transcendent.
The goal of the statist is to create two classes, the managers and the animals. When man is reduced to an animal, he can be killed with impunity, he will kill with impunity, he can have his back broken with hard labor, or can be subjected to degradation for amusement. He can be caged without complaint, and pacified with the most mundane.
I heard a story once about Stalin in which he was asked how long he thought he could keep torturing his people before they rose up against him. He took a chicken in one hand, pulled every feather from its body as it writhed in pain, then set it on the ground. He then took some bread and offered it to the chicken, who gladly came to him to feed.
The statist must make an animal of his fellow man, and the first step is to remove the inner witness of our origin, purpose, morality, and destiny.
A storm is coming to the UK one way or another. Just as God used Assyria and Babylon to judge His people when they strayed and mocked Him, so to shall he use the Muslim hordes to judge those who seek His removal.