Prof. Richard Dawkins, formerly a militant atheist, is now getting worried that the collapse of Christianity in Britain is destroying a 'bulwark against something worse'.
From the Times of London (with thanks to Trencherbone):
"In Britain religious belief is in freefall, according to the most recent figures from the National Centre for Social Research. Over the past two decades the number of people describing themselves as atheist or agnostic has risen to 37 per cent, while those identifying themselves as Christian has dropped from 66 per cent to 50 per cent.
Even among the world’s most famous atheists, the crisis of faith among Christians in Europe has been met with concern.
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: “There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings. I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.”
Peter Tatchell, the human rights campaigner and one of the organisers of the Protest the Pope demonstration at Westminster Cathedral last weekend, came to the defence of a Christian street preacher who was fined £1,000 in Glasgow for saying that homosexuality was a sin.
Shawn Holes, a Baptist from America, was charged with “uttering homophobic remarks” in a breach of the peace that prosecutors said was “aggravated by religious prejudice”.
Mr Tatchell said: “The price of freedom of speech is that we sometimes have to put up with opinions that are objectionable and offensive. Just as people should have the right to criticise religion, people of faith should have the right to criticise homosexuality.”
It is a sign of how bad things have become that the faith’s enemies seem now to be defending it. "
16 comments:
If the British lose faith in Christianity- they won't be atheists-the british will have
to become devout muslims under
Islam and sun their asses five
times a day.
Wow! I guess Richard Dawkins is far smarter than I thought. He recognizes something which very few others seem to recognize.
This isn't about Britain, this is about the whole world at this point starting with Europe.
Well, I guess he's not holding out too much the aliens will save us, so Christianity might as well do for now.
Pastorius,
Richard Dawkins perhaps realizes that once Christianity is actually gone, something will have to fill the void. There's an old statement in science, "nature abhors a vacuum." I think he may fear what might fill that avoid. He also seems to realize that there's a huge difference between how Christians in general view the world, and how Muslims view the world. In addition once a religion starts to grow, it maybe very difficult to stop it, and Islam, particularly the violent fundamentalist variety is largely impervious to reason and and science, and Muslim Jihadists won't tolerate people like him, once they gain power. It looks like Dawkins knows this. I guess war makes strange bedfellows.
By the way, your link to the article you are sighting here doesn't seem to work.
When I click on it, it reads,
Request-URI Too Large
The requested URL /IS%20THE%20COLLAPSE%20OF%20CHRISTIANITY%20IN%20BRITAIN%20OPENING%20THE%20GATES%20TO%20ISLAM... is too large to process.
Could you please try to fix it?
LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7085129.ece
Thanks, for the link, Trencherbone.
Damien,
Richard Dawkins perhaps realizes that once Christianity is actually gone, something will have to fill the void.
And that something would be Islam, of course. Pfffft!
Reality IS a hard thing to deny FOREVER...
btw URL can always be shortened by TINYURL, a web page that stores the links and subs a very short version.
Dawkins made his contributions to the "demise" of Christianity. As my dad would say "He's made his bed, now it's time to lie in it."
Karma's a bee-otch.
SamenoKami,
I think it maybe more of a case of "be careful what you wish for you just might get it." Dawkins has wanted Christianity to decline for a long time, but no that it is, it has had an unforeseen consequence that he didn't predict.
There is an african saying that goes something like this:
"Don't bring down a fence until you know why it is there".
Mr atheist Dawkins has been destroying Christianity without FIRST reading history books and finding out why it is there.
Europe without Christianity is a place ready to be taken by Islam, and mr atheist Dawkins seems to be realizing that.
Good by europe!
I agree, Mats.
Now, he's playing catch-up, but until he actually fights for Christianity, he is just a beggar, shirking responsibility for his own presence in the world.
Dawkins. The man who sell a lot of lies about christianism now realize the most obvious fact when Europe falls on its knees.
"J"enious!
I guess I'm crazy to think that the druid or germanic/saxon Asatru revival which is by the way growing quite quickly when looking at numbers within the past 10 years. All the Pagan revivals have been steadly growing. I myself am agnostic leaned atheist but the earth loving pagan religions seem like a more than welcome change. Lets face it no religion is perfect and on many ways they can be more of a pain in the ass than anything. But there will always be some group of people that need something to cling too, that being said the european polytheistic revivals are much more open minded and far less bigoted than the abrehamic monotheistic faiths. Christianity and idlam are not the only choices...
IM AMERICAN..
IM MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE JEWISH 'NOAHIDE LAWS' passed in my country in 1991..
our gov is filled with Israelis..and our nation is being eaten by the Locust people..
JUDAISM...UNDER NOAHIDE LAWS..TO RENOUNCE OUR FAITH...OR ELSE IT REQUIRES ALL CHRISTIANS TO BE BEHEADED..
How come we always hear about Muslims..and do we even know if all that PROPAGANDA IS TRUTH?
BUT IN AMERICA..WERE UNDER JEWISH RULE..AND SOON..JEWISH NOAHIDE LAWS..
READ ESTHER..did not the Jews force people into conversion there as well?
Me thinks the media is dishonest...and the REAL LOCUST PEOPLE..REMAIN HIDDEN BEHIND LIES..AND DECEPTIONS
BY DECEPTION..THEY WILL MAKE WAR AGAINST ALL OF US..AND HAVE INSTALLED THEIR BANKING IN ISLAMIC NATIONS...AND ALL AROUND THE WORLD ....forcing the nations of the earth into their NEW WORLD ORDER...which is hardly Islamic..lmao..
GOD TELLS YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW..NO KORAN..OR TALMUD TELLS YOU THESE THINGS....but the God of TODAYS ISRAEL..CHRISTIANDOM..does..
Here..learn where the REAL GLOBAL GOV resides..and WHO AND WHAT THE REAL HARLOT OF BABYLON IS ACCORDING TO THE GOD OF CREATION.
Unlike Judaism..and Islam whos books were written by mere men..whos books contain no prophesy to prove them to be of God.
READ:
REVELATION 11,8, 17;1, 17;18, 18;10, 18;2-3, 18:23-24...and also Luke 13:33..in regards to the two prophets yet to come in the Book of Revelation..who will die in the streets of THE GREAT CITY..JERUSALEM...
Pasto -
Ur 2 kind.
SameNoKami
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