The man who was perhaps the most notorious purveyor of the New Atheist movement back in the aughts has dropped a bombshell in a recent interview.
A famous atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explained he identifies as a “cultural Christian” in an interview after learning Ramadan lights were hung on a street in the UK as opposed to hanging lights to celebrate Easter.
Dawkins was referring to Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, turning on 30,000 lights for Ramadan – the Muslim holy month – on the cusp of Easter weekend on Oxford Street.
“I must say I’m slightly horrified to hear that Ramadan is being promoted instead,” Dawkins said in an interview with Rachel S. Johnson of LBC Sunday. “I feel that we are a Christian country.”
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“It’s true that statistically, the number of people who actually believe in Christianity is going down and I’m happy with that, but I would not be happy if, for example, we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches. So, I count myself a cultural Christian. I think it would matter if we… substituted any alternative religion, that would be truly dreadful,” he told the media outlet.
Dawkins said that if he had to choose between Christianity and Islam, he would choose Christianity “every single time.”
Dawkins’ remarks struck many as a startling heel turn for someone who spent the latter part of his career trying to undermine Christianity.
Meanwhile, his claim that fewer people believe in Christianity rings false under scrutiny, as Christians hold their own worldwide while atheism shrinks faster than any other belief system.
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The famed atheist has stirred the pot in the past when he told British journalist Piers Morgan “there are two sexes and that’s all there is to it.”
He called out the “bullies” who criticized “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling for commenting that there are only two sexes.
“Sex really is binary,” the scientist previously explained. “You’re either male or female, and it’s absolutely clear you can do it on gamete size. You can do it on chromosomes. To me, as a biologist, it’s distinctly weird people can simply declare ‘I am a woman though I have a penis’.”
Editor’s note:
It’s good that Richard Dawkins describes himself as a cultural Christian.
What he’s overlooking is that the root word of “culture” is “cult”.
A people’s culture is, at heart, the mass actualization of their shared religion.
Get enough of the people to stop believing their original religion, and you don’t get a shiny secular Star Trek future. You get a different cult filling the vacuum.
Dawkins is calling out Britain’s Islamization. But that’s just a symptom he’s fixating on because he’s blind to Liberalism having warped into a full-on Death Cult.
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Here’s the interview:
Hearing Dawkins’ critiques of Christianity in the interview, one gets the sense that he opposes the Church to the extent that she stands athwart the sexual revolution as he perceives it. That is, frozen ca. 1975.
The cliché of the libertine atheist who wants to enjoy the benefits of Christendom without accepting any of the moral responsibilities thereto has become a meme. And Dawkins has become a walking, talking avatar of that meme.
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If you look at the sum of his positions on feminism, abortion, and transsexualism, it’s clear he wants to suppress “Be fruitful and multiply” while still affirming “Male and female He created them.”
In short, Dawkins wants to assert the biological reality of sex while denying its natural end. So people don’t feel guilty for sleeping around. It’s pure concentrated Boomerism.
His problem is that you can’t pick and choose which parts of the truth you want to accept. You either acknowledge the whole truth or none of it. Because otherwise, you come off as insincere and arbitrary.
Even the Death Cult has more integrity than Dawkins. They take the magical thinking that says you can separate sexuality from biology to its logical extreme. Now he’s whining about it.
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It’s sad, really. The ruling Death Cult used the nuAtheists as pawns to soften up Christendom so they could import a new Muslim peasant class. A movement is what it does. So in the end, the self-styled sophisticates of the fedora tipping fad turned out to be just another bunch of barbarians.
Anyway, I wouldn’t waste time dealing with atheists online. Society tried the fedoras’ re-heathenizing scheme, and instead of utopia, we got a low-trust hellhole where Walgreens locks down merchandise, planes’ wings fall off, and bridges collapse. The Church unwittingly rope-a-doped nuAtheism into exhaustion. Let’s avoid the same mistake by focusing on our real enemy: the Death Cult.
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