Richard Dawkins, one of the world’s foremost atheists, apparently has some regrets about the decline of Christianity.
“I do think that we are culturally a Christian country,” Dawkins told, a British talk-radio station. “I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer. … And so you know, I love hymns and Christmas carols, and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos. … If we substituted with any alternative religion, that would be truly dreadful.”
Strip society of these values by encouraging people to reject their source, and it turns out that what we’re left with is a soulless, depressed, and increasingly unjust culture. Get rid of God, and everyone starts to think of themselves as their own gods. Regardless, it’s obvious Dawkins believes he can have the societal benefits that Christianity provides while rejecting its core doctrines. T.S. Eliot once described this mindset aptly: “Do you need to be told that even such modest attainments as you can boast in the way of polite society will hardly survive the faith to which they owe their significance?”
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