Richard Dawkins Laments The Decline Of Christianity In England, Calls Himself "Culturally Christian"

Damn good Catholic, that one...

 

when he was praising Christian culture (very specifically not Christianity) he did quickly draw back from including American Christian culture in his praise

 

Why would the Bible mention a religion that emerged 700 years later ? And what does it mean that OT doesn’t count anymore ?

 

If faith were 'individualistic', there'd be no religions. You wouldn't be Jewish, and I wouldn't be Catholic... bc there'd be no such collective with which to align or identify.

Our respective faiths have their differences. It is incumbent upon us, to reconcile those differences individually, without also compromising our beliefs.

(or compromise our beliefs)

 

Good luck finding any Christians who will openly own any of those televangelists.

They seem only to exist on television.

 

Aww, come on back to church. There’s always room for one more hypocrite!

 

Somewhat ironic, Richard Dawkins is an atheist who is supportive of the virtuous values and ethics of Christianity while in effect rejecting the divinity of Jesus. In contrast a large percentage of American White Evangelical Christians are true believers in the divinity of Jesus while selectively ignoring the ethics and values of the religion and even the teachings of Jesus for example the commandments to "Love thy neighbor as thyself" or to "welcome the stranger" or to "feed the hungry" and even among those that do believe in those commandments there is a segment that literally worships a demagogue who has built his political career on rejecting them.

 

...or where in the Bible it mentions "the Bible", or even scripture that would come into being...

(They became 'scripture' (NT that is) through the Church. The Christian Church, did not come into being, bc of, or by, scripture. Fwiw).

 

Unless the Bible is a unified document wherein Judaism and Islam are artifices that emerged later.

 

FOOD FIGHT!!!

 

Btw, did any of yall catch the line where the reporter/interviewer said something to the effect of "...every second birth is a virgin birth" like it was some kind of saying or addage...and if so, can anyone shed any kind of light on whatever she was referring to???

 

Check out a funny Facebook page entitled Blame it on Constantine. Spoiler alert: everything’s Constantine’s fault.

 

Dawkins likes his Bible buffet style.

 

What does 'culturally Christian' even mean? Just a roundabout way of saying "Western Chauvinist?" Most of the people in the Dawkins New Atheist orbit were basically just anti-Islam, that was their whole deal.

 

Probably Trump Derangement Syndrome.

 

This just seems to me that Dawkins is acknowledging that Christianity is far from the worst major religion on the earth and that something else in its place could be less desirable.

 

I don't know how you can claim that Christianity doesn't permeate our culture. Here in the U.S. and I imagine in England as well.

 

I'm more interested in what Dawkins and people using that term mean. Like, I celebrate Christmas, and never go to church. Never once told people "I'm culturally Christian" if they ask me if I'm religious. I feel like a lot of the moms for liberty types dont attend much church but think of themselves as 'culturally Christian' when they are banning books (but also doing threesomes) and being anti-gay. Is that a kind of culture war stance?

 

I consider myself a Bible believer and based on Dawkin’s definition of “cultural Christian”, I venture that that defines most Americans who call themselves Christians.

Interestingly, way back in the 70’s Billy Graham said “America is a pagan nation in which many Christians reside.”