Cultural Update: Dawkins is a Christian?; Social Costs of De-Churching; Spiritual Parenthood

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, Sean and guest co-host Rick Langer discuss:Richard Dawkins Identifies as a Cultural Christian: Dawkins expresses shock over Ramadan lights in the UK, highlighting his value for Christian heritage despite his atheism.Debate on "Sex Assigned at Birth": An opinion piece in The New York Times challenging the terminology, emphasizing biological facts over socio-political agendas.Social Costs of De-Churching in America: An article in The Atlantic by an agnostic author explores the negati...

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0:00.0	Richard Dawkins, possibly the most famous atheist in the world, identifies as a cultural
0:07.1	Christian.
0:08.3	The New York Times runs an opinion piece titled The Problem with Saying Sex Assigned at Birth.
0:14.4	And according to a peace in the Atlantic, written by an agnostic, there's a big social
0:18.8	cost for the de-churching movement in America.
0:22.1	These are the stories we'll discuss today and we'll address
0:24.3	some of your questions. I'm your host Sean McDowell and I'm joined again by
0:28.0	Biola professor and author Rick Langer. This is the Think Bivocally
0:32.4	weekly Cultural Update
0:33.7	brought to you by Taub School Theology Biola University.
0:37.6	Rick, thanks for coming back, my friend.
0:39.2	Hey, it's great to be here again, Sean.
0:41.9	Well, let's jump right into this first story that I got to tell you I
0:44.3	did not see this one coming. I wrote a book responding to the new atheist gosh in
0:50.2	2010 14 years ago.
0:52.6	So for Richard Dawkins to describe himself
0:55.1	as a cultural Christian, it's not an overstatement
0:58.3	to say it shocked me and stopped me in my track.
1:00.8	So here's a story. This came out in Fox News and he identifies as a
1:06.7	cultural Christian in an interview after learning that Ramadan Lights were hung
1:12.3	in a street in the UK as opposed to
1:14.9	hanging lights to celebrate Easter. So Dr. was referring to the mayor of
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