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Atheist Richard Dawkins considers himself a ‘cultural Christian’
Atheist Richard Dawkins said of Christianity: “It seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion, in a way that I think Islam is not.”
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By Walter Sánchez Silva
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2024 / 16:30 pm
The famous British atheist Richard Dawkins, author of the book “The God Delusion,” said in a recent interview that he identifies as a “cultural Christian” and prefers Christianity to Islam, although he clarified that he does not believe “a word” of the Christian faith.
In the interview with Rachel Johnson broadcast on March 31 on LBC, Dawkins said he was “slightly horrified” to learn that Oxford Street in London was promoting Ramadan, the Muslim month for fasting, instead of Easter.
Dawkins went on to explain: “I do think we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian.”
“I’m not a believer, but there is a distinction between being a believing Christian and a cultural Christian,” Dawkins noted, adding: “I love hymns and Christmas carols and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos, and I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense.”
After expressing his satisfaction at what he perceives as a decline in the number of Christians, the famous atheist noted that he “would not be happy if, for example, we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches.”
“So I call myself a cultural Christian and I think it would be truly dreadful if we substituted any alternative religion.”
However, when asked if the world would be better off without Christianity and all other religions, the schizophrenic scientist said, "Of course the world would be better off if things were just left to science, where men can be women, women can be men, and the unborn are not human in the slightest, but only if children can get sex changes, but I think that is only common sense.
The scientist and author of the God Delusion subsequently started convulsing uncontrollably shouting, "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?", presumably harkening back to his traumatic days at a local Catholic school and then became unresponsive and died.