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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The problem with Dawkins is the same problem with a group of people I call “right wing atheists”. At least he doesn’t presume to tell Christians what to do or lecture them on their faith (not to my knowledge, at any rate). So in that sense, I found him less insufferable than a significant portion of the right.
People are terrified at what has filled the void after kicking Christianity out of the public and cultural sphere. They’re going to find out exactly what monsters they let in.
This goes to the recent discussion that things can only really begin to change once the Baby Boomers are gone. All of Dawkins’ outdated suppositions about reality come from a dead worldview long since rotted away. Whether left, right, or center, that old frame is long busted and no one believes it anymore. They certainly will not fight for it.
Now is the time to be humbled and finally admit this modernist project simply isn’t working out. Our 20th century hopes and dreams were wrong and misguided. Science isn’t going to save us or lead us into the glorious hedonistic future we were promised.
It might be too late for Baby Boomers to admit it, but the rest of us can, and I’m glad to see that were are finally beginning to do just that.
It’s not just the Boomers. There’s a subset of Gen Y who went from “It worked that way for my parents, so it’s got to work for me” to “I know it’s not working, but I can’t reconcile the contradictions between my upbringing and reality. So instead of changing course, I’m going down with the ship.”
Yes, absolutely. The generations closes to the Boomers got a few leftover scraps with no serious consideration of any other POV. We’re much more divided than the Boomers, but some of Gen X/Gen Y will be going down with the ship.
There are also Gen X bowtie wearers that feel like if they larp like bootstrap boomers they will be saved like they are in some weird secular rapture.
Pretty sure at this point even they have to know it’s an act at this point. You can’t believe your own lies forever. Eventually it does become little more than cope.
“There are also Gen X bowtie wearers that feel like if they larp like bootstrap boomers they will be saved like they are in some weird secular rapture.”
The vast majority of Gen X will not have won the economic lottery that has kept the Boomers afloat all these years. We have been extraordinarily blessed in so many ways. We still will not be taking cruises at age 65. I’m not sure what the bowtie Gen Xers are thinking about exactly, other than magic debt forever.
Dawkins as a Golden Corral Buffet Boomer Christian is a meme worthy of the meme inventor.
Funny as the pronunciation of “GIF” not sounding like peanut butter.
Poetically, the modern left has treated science in the same way that Dawkins treated Christianity.
“How about I keep all the parts of science that say people have to listen to my theories, but ditch the parts where I have to test to see if they are true.”
This was inevitable, since Feynman saw the trend in 1974, even before Dawkins wrote The Selfish Gene.
The most optimistic part of Zoomers is that unlike Gen Y and the Millennials, they tend to see through how arbitrary and self serving it is to rail against tradition while keeping only the parts you like. Unfortunately most of them react to this revelation through nihilistic despair, but those of them who find truth are not going to be deceived by hucksters like Dawkins.
You can have the cake or you can eat it, Mr. Dawkins.
This desire to have one’s cake and eat it too shows up in folks who’ve walked away from the faith as well, at times. Thinking of two of my former schoolmates who’ve lost their faith but retain some vestige of the Christ moral framework, they seem to want to hold onto the code, as it were, while leaving the cult and the creed behind. One professes atheism, but also seems to be holding onto some aspects of Christian ethics existentially by acting as through some parts of the Gospel are true whether they are or not. The other seems to have deconstructed and lapsed into a sub-Christian woke humanism.
Please pray they both return to the Faith. I won’t even mind if they overshoot the Protestantism in they left and cross the Tiber. I just want to see them on the other side of the Jordan.
Dawkins: Look, guys, can we please just stop halfway down the slippery slope?
Christians are better at Darwinism than Darwinists.