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Richard Dawkins quits atheism foundation for backing transgender ‘religion’
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Richard "Culturally Christian" Dawkins can go meme himself out of the meme pool.
I get, given how right wing, nasty, anti women and anti LGBTQ+ the American church is, why you would want to put Richard Dawkins, who is so nasty and anti trans (probably among other things) into the same bucket, but he's British, not American, and famously very firmly anti-religion.
He has always been a dick, whatever he was trying to convince people of, and it's no surprise he continues to be a dick in his old age. It doesn't mean he's a Christian. He's really, really, really not.
“Culturally Christian” is not the same as “Christian“. The man clearly holds on to many of the perspectives he picked up being raised Anglican.
I'm one of those too, not all that voluntarily. I carry a lot of unconscious baggage left over from being raised Catholic. Not all of it is bad: there's a tradition of critical thinking and cultural engagement that is positive. But I occasionally still get twinges of guilt about things that are not in my control, or that are not things to be guilty about in the first place.
Some context for you: https://skepchick.org/2024/04/richard-dawkins-cultural-christian-or-supremacist-bigot/
Surplus extra-topical context: https://religiondispatches.org/norway-massacre-suspect-anders-behring-breivik-hitler-the-jerusalem-post-editorial/ (you can find his manifesto online)
OK, the first article points out that he has a lot in common with the American right wing churches in that they don't actually believe a word of it and just use it as a cultural sheild for their hatred, which is a fair point.
The second one doesn't seem as related.
The second one is about how far [right] "Culturally Christian" can go.