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THERE IS A GOD ,
or THERE IS NO GOD
THAT IS THE QUESTION:
THEISM or ATHEISM
tackling the giants: Influencing your world –
Thought & Philosophy
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Jonathan Gwilt has been KTLCC
Finance Director for over 20 years.
He finds engaging with the Giant
of Thought and Philosophy
exciting because so much hinges
on our mindset and thinking.
26 Revival Times May 2017
n the 2011 Census, only 29,267 people
declared themselves as ‘atheist’. When added
to the 32,382 who said they were ‘agnostic’ and
the 15,067 who responded as ‘humanist’ that’s
less than 80,000 people, fewer than 1:750 of
the population and less than 45% of those who
responded with ‘Jedi Knight’. Compare this with the
33 million who responded as Christian. Yet today
you could be excused for thinking that Britain is
a secular, post-Christian nation because what
atheists lack in number they make up for in their
determination to shape the agenda in the academy,
legislature and media. So what can we say about
this seemingly modern phenomenon?
Firstly, atheism is nothing new. As its etymology
suggests, it is as old as the Greeks and is founded