The world's most famous living atheist,

one of the four horsemen of the new atheist movement 20 years ago,

is now calling himself a Christian, sort of.

Here's why.

Well, I must say I was slightly horrified to hear that Ramadan is being promoted instead.

I do think that we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural

Christian. I'm not a believer. But there's a distinction between being a

believing Christian and being a cultural Christian. And so, you know, I love Hmns and Christmas carols and I sort of feel at home in the

Christian ethos I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense is truth that statistically the number

of people who actually believe in Christianity is going down and I'm happy with that but I would not be happy if for example we lost all our

cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches so I count myself a cultural Christian. I think it would matter if we, certainly if we substituted

any alternative religion that would be truly dreadful. If I had to choose between Christianity

and Islam, I choose Christianity every single time.

I mean, it seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion in a way that I think Islam is not.

I find that I think Islam is not. I find that I like to live in a culturally Christian

country, although I do not believe a single word of the Christian faith.

For an intelligent guy, Richard Dawkins sure seems to miss some pretty basic aspects of life and logic.

20 years after creating the modern atheist movement,

he is shocked and horrified by the inevitable consequences of his movement's success.

The man holds multiple degrees from Oxford,

where he went on to teach for many years.

And yet for all that education,

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