Without foundations the building falls
by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand:
In Psalm 14:1 we are told that ‘the fool says in his heart there is no God’. Richard Dawkins has been such a fool for so long that it is almost possible to feel sorry for him. The man who as chief spokesman of the New Atheists thundered out his condemnation of all religions, but particularly Christianity, is reduced to a rather lonely figure trying to work out just how far he can backtrack on his maledictions without losing all credibility.
A Cultural Christian
The man who once wrote that parents who send their children to Sunday School are guilty of child abuse has now declared himself to be a ‘cultural Christian’. He cherishes the cultural artifacts and traditions of Christianity, from hymns and Christmas carols to beautiful parish churches and old-fashioned liberalism. He ‘feels the Christian ethos’, and considers the UK a Christian country and that ‘to substitute any alternative religion would be truly dreadful’.
However, whilst valuing the outworking of Christianity he continues to reject the actual religion. Against reason, he really does think you can somehow retain cultural Christianity and all that Christianity has given the world whilst advocating the total rejection of the Christian belief which underpins it. Which is like saying you can retain a magnificent cathedral after undermining the foundations on which it is built. Take away Christianity and all of value which it has produced crumbles away. If Christianity didn’t exist there would be a very different ‘cultural’ context; which is the real danger facing the West today.
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