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Subject: Re: Dawkins the 'Cultural Christian'
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Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://catholicherald.co.uk/im-a-cultural-christian-declares-richard-dawkins-the-worlds-most-famous-atheist/
> 
> https://tinyurl.com/2xw2x96a
> 
> <quote>
>   Mr Dawkins, 83, said: "I do think we are culturally a Christian
> country. I call myself a cultural Christian." He said: "I'm not a
> believer, but there is a distinction between being a believing
> Christian and a cultural Christian. 
> 
> He added: "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."
> 
>  [he] also said he would not be happy if, for example, we lost all
> our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches.
> 
> He continued: So I call myself a cultural Christian and I think it
> would be truly dreadful if we substituted any alternative religion.
> 
> ... He said however that although he recognised its benefits of
> Christian culture and enjoyed "living in a culturally Christian
> country" at the same time he did "not believe a word of the Christian
> faith".
> 
> </quote>
> 
> Dawkins has blamed religion for most of the evil in the world and has
> described teaching religion to children as worse than sexual abuse.
> Beats me how he can see "cultural" benefit in something so bad. Mind
> you, he has come out with some rather weird views in recent years.
> 
I think the key contrast for Dawkins here is with the Islam bugbear.
Remember clockboy?
https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/25/europe/uk-richard-dawkins-clock-boy-ahmed-mohamed/

Or this gem:
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/365473573768400896

Hemant Mehta offers a perspective on this:
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/richard-dawkins-says-christianity

Also, there’s an undercurrent of regret brewing amongst some IDW atheists
that the alleged success of “new atheism” had opened a god-sized hole
making people susceptible to wokeism. It’s called the substitution
hypothesis. Peter Boghossian, another IDW atheist, is a proponent. You
can’t make this shit up if you tried. The atheist right wing is dovetailing
with conservative Christians on some social issues.