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Richard Dawkins claims to be a ‘cultural Christian’

edia reports have recently highlighted Richard Dawkins’ comments that he considers himself to be a cultural Christian. This was in a London Broadcasting Company (LBC) radio interview over the Easter weekend (1 April 2024), with Rachel Johnson, sister of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Good news you may think, but it doesn’t mean that he has given up on his belief in atheism and evolution, or his attacks on biblical creationism which he referred to as “pernicious nonsense” in the interview. It is, of course, good that he has moved to find Christianity appealing culturally, but what about the deeper reality of faith?

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