Richard Dawkins, a well-known English atheist, stated this week that he was a” social Christian.”
Thanking society in the United Kingdom, Dawkins stated:
I do believe that our culture is Christian. I call myself a historical Christian. I’m not a disciple. However, there is a difference between historical and non-believer Christians. And , but, you know, I love songs and Christmas songs, and I sort of feel at house in the Christian philosophy. In that regard, I believe that our nation is Christian.
In a way that I do n’t believe Islam is, Dawkins continued, lauding Christianity as “fundamentally decent religion.”
Dawkins ‘ event for Christianity—a case made , on the base of , utility—is everything fresh. It was made long before by Voltaire, an alkaline critique of the church who reportedly averred,” If God did not exist, it would be required to build him”.
The issue with the utilitarian justification of religious belief is n’t how it animates religious believers. It is just impossible to build a civilization , on the base of , Judeo- Holy foundations while making the effective circumstance as to why those foundations ought to be dissolved.
In fact, Western civilization has already lost its way because it ca n’t resurrect its religious roots. Philosopher Will Herberg , wrote:
All of Western civilization’s social tenets are derived from the history that is rooted in Scripture, and they only have a meaningful impact in that history. Cut flowers can only maintain their initial beauty and fragrance for a certain amount of time once they’ve exhausted the power they have drawn from their now-severed roots. Once that is done, they wither and perish.  , So , with independence, brotherhood, justice and individual dignity—the ideals that form the spiritual foundation of our culture. Without the life-giving strength of the belief from which they have sprung, they lack neither indicating nor power.
We are a cut flowers culture.
And finally, cut blooms die.
The Biden administration’s decision to celebrate the previously created Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday has never been more evident. Gender philosophy is a condition of our society’s return to mystical pagan, in which unknown, turbulent forces buffet us on, and in which nature is directly opposed to the freedom of our ghostly essences.
No wonder every dominant traditional religion opposes female philosophy.
Despite ignoring the final portion of the bible poetry, which states, “male and feminine, he made them,” the White House issued a number of statements in event of extreme female philosophy, including a profoundly insulting statement from the president of the United States citing the passage of Genesis, which reads,” Male and female he made them.
What better time than Easter, the holiest day in the Christian calendar, to pay homage to an entirely new religion?
It is obvious that a civilization grounded in a set of values is superior to one founded on a church.  , But in reality, the , churches cannot be empty, they must be full. The cathedrals that mean Britain to Dawkins must ring with the sounds of hymns , in order to , maintain their holiness and their importance, otherwise, they are merely beautiful examples of old architecture, remnants of a dead civilization preserved in stone.
However, our civilization must endure. And that means more than cultural Christianity. It means revisiting the Scriptures, which were our fathers and grandfathers ‘ teachers, to the source of our values.
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