Discovered or Created? The Logic of "Science" Works...Until It Doesn't
Richard Dawkins called himself a "cultural Christian," though he (and contemporaries) "don't like the idea" of a God who "sat around for eternity" and decided to make the universe.
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has been for decades one of the world’s leading atheists and evangelists for a religion of strict denial—denial in anything divine or supernatural, for one. At its ultimate ‘end,’ atheism holds that God is neither real nor even possible; ask a serious atheist what evidence he/she would accept to consider the reality of God and the more they stumble or equivocate, the more likely you’ll watch the internal inconsistencies coming to bear.
If you ever watched Dawkins in a debate with Christians (or theists, more generally), or if even you’d read his The God Delusion published in 2008, you’d know that Dawkins never gave the religious mind a second thought. His preference was to denigrate such people, telling the world how stupid we are for believing “without evidence.” So imagine my utter shock when I came across this statement:
“I do think we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian; I’m not a believer. But there’s a distinction between being a cultural Christian and being a believing Christian.”
Wait, what?
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