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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Last week, Richard Dawkins, one of the so-called four horsemen of the new atheist and longtime foe of Christianity,

made a fascinating confession to host Rachel Johnson of LBC News.

The Oxford biologists and author of the God Delusion expressed concern after seeing Islamic Ramadan lights on a street that once featured Easter lights.

Here's Dawkins, quote, 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. I love hymns and Christmas carols and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos. We in the UK are a Christian

country in that sense. Dawkins then told Johnson that he's now horrified to see

Islamic holidays and mosques taking the place of Christian feast

and cathedrals in Europe. As he put it, quote, if I had to choose

between Christianity and Islam, I choose Christianity every single time.

It seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion. I choose Christianity every single time.

Seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion in a way that I think Islam is not."

Where a torrent of interesting and often funny reactions followed the interview.

Rod Dreyer pointed out that for Dawkins to claim that he likes cathedrals and Christmas

carols, but is glad church attendance is declining, it's kind of like saying he enjoys

eating but is glad that his country's farms are closing.

Writer Henry George remark that, quote,

rebuilding civilization means accepting the source, not the effect of Christianity.

He then quoted historian of philosophy Remy Braug who said,

we owe European civilization to people who believed in Christ,

not to people who believed in Christianity.

And then another person posted on X that

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