Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins said on Easter Sunday that he identifies as a “cultural Christian”, prefers to live in a country based on Christian principles and does not want Britain to become an Islamic state. said.
Richard Dawkins, honorary fellow at New College, Oxford University, and author of The God Delusion, says he identifies with Christian societies more than other faith-based countries, i.e. Islamic countries. He said he would choose a religious society.
LBC radio’s Rachel Johnson, sister of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Mr Dawkins said on Sunday they were “a little surprised” that Ramadan lights were being switched on in London instead of Easter lights.
“I consider our country to be a culturally Christian country, and I call myself a cultural Christian. I am not a believer, but I am a believing Christian and a culturally There is a difference between being a Christian. I love hymns and Christmas carols. I feel somehow close to the spirit of Christianity. I feel that our country is a Christian country.
Mr Dawkins said he was “pleased” about the declining number of Christians in the UK, but that cathedrals and other cultural aspects of living in a Christian country were He said he would mourn its loss.
“Of course, if you replaced it with another religion, I think it would be really scary.”
“If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I would always choose Christianity.”
A self-proclaimed “cultural Christian” @RichardDawkins,Tell you @RachelSJohnson He said he was “a bit horrified” to hear that Ramadan lights were being put up on Oxford Street instead of Easter lights. pic.twitter.com/ZY2ePfpms1
— LBC (@LBC) March 31, 2024
When Mr Johnson was asked whether he saw a decline in church attendance and an increase in the number of Islamic mosques being built across Europe as a problem, he said: “I think so.”
Mr Dawkins said he needed to choose his words “carefully”, perhaps in light of the New Atheist Salmon Rushdie attack by radical Islamists in 2022. every time”.
“Islam seems like a fundamentally decent religion, but I don’t think so,” he added.
Asked about what he found vulgar about the Islamic faith, Dawkins said, “I think there’s an active hostility toward women, and that’s encouraged by the holy book of Islam…I think about individual Muslims… I’m not talking to you. They’re completely different people.
“But the doctrines of Islam, the Hadith, and the Koran are fundamentally hostile to women, and they are also hostile to homosexuals. I don’t believe in a single word of the Christian faith, but culturally I believe that I feel that I would prefer to live in a country of religion.”
Britain is no longer a Christian country due to the rise of atheism and Islam – Censushttps://t.co/kTFIWRg67S
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 29, 2022
