Dawkins flip 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

"Fundamentally decent," that's his description of Christianity as opposed to Islam. He feels at home in the Christian ethos, he loves hymns (what?!) and Christmas carols. He thinks Britain is a Christian country: "If we substituted any alternative religion, that would be truly dreadful!"

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He's come to the same point that historian and atheist Tom Holland did, who said, "It took me a long time to realize my morals are not Greek or Roman, but thoroughly, and proudly, Christian." 

Do I attack Richard Dawkins for doing something of a flip-flop? No. He learned there's goodness in Christianity, and that many of the good things he appreciates in his own culture come from that source.  It's good that he's acknowledging the truth he learned.

Dawkins flip 1

Something unexpected has happened in the world of atheism. Richard Dawkins, that relentless enemy of religion, calls himself a "cultural Christian." 😮

It's not that he believes in God now or believes that Jesus rose from the dead. But it appears that he despises the faith a little less than he used to. Let's hear his 4-minute explanation:

(cont'd tomorrow)

Ali flip 1

Another famous atheist has done the unexpected: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, respected intellectual with an amazing life story, converted to Christianity.

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In a public discussion event with Richard Dawkins last fall she said: 

"Like you, I did mock faith, in general, and probably Christianity in particular, but I don't do that anymore. ... I have come down to my knees to say that the people who always had faith have something that we who lost faith don’t have.”

“What you value in Christianity is something that really is absolutely necessary to pass on to the next generation,” she said. “And we have failed the next generation by taking [it] away from them . . and telling them it’s nonsense and false."

She, like Dawkins, admires the Western Civilization that Christianity built. But more than that, she found in Christianity the answer to her question, "what is the meaning and purpose of life?"

from Christian Post

(cont'd tomorrow)