Oddbean new post about login | logout Famous atheist says he identifies as a 'cultural Christian' and is 'horrified' by promotion of Islamic holiday... https://www.foxnews.com/media/famous-atheist-says-identifies-cultural-christian-horrified-promotion-islamic-holiday #news #newstr
Dawkins is (and always was) a post-theist Christian https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/ Many Christians see the modern decline and the semi-retraction of 'New Atheists' like Dawkins and want a more hardcore version of modern schismatic Christianity. As the preceding link makes clear, that would be a mistake. Dawkins represents exactly that form of Christianity, and adding cosmology will not vitiate his ethics. Instead, Christian should re-embrace Scholasticism, making reason based on experience respectable within the Church https://fvdb.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-duel-between-good-and-evil-aristotle-versus-plato-ayn-rand-versus-kant/ Dawkins himself should embrace the naturalistic ethics he highlights in his book The Selfish Gene, but rejects in favor of "rising above" our nature (to embrace a toxic form of ultra-altruistic Christianity) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene