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Richard Dawkins: ‘Benign’ Christianity is About to be Replaced by ‘Something Worse’ – Islam
LifeSite News ^ | 3/23/18 | Calvin Freiburger

Posted on 03/25/2018 5:55:54 PM PDT by marshmallow

UNITED KINGDOM, March 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Despite his years of denouncing religion, Richard Dawkins does not welcome a European future without Christianity.

On Wednesday, the atheist author and evolutionary biologist warned those inclined to “rejoice at the death throes of the relatively benign Christian religion” to keep in mind the danger of "something worse" taking its place.

That worse alternative, Dawkins suggests, is Islam, which he has previously called “the most evil religion in the world.”

Dawkins was reacting to a Guardian report on recent polling that shows 70% of people in the United Kingdom between the ages of 16 and 29 do not identify with any religion, that 59% of them never attend religious services, and that almost two-thirds of them never pray.

The research, published by theology and sociology professor Stephen Bullivant of St. Mary’s University in London, finds similarly high numbers in other European nations. Sweden, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic all have even higher percentages of non-religious young people, while the young populations of France, Belgium, and Hungary are all more than 60% non-religious. More than half of the age group in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Spain is non-religious, as well.

“Christianity as a default, as a norm, is gone, and probably gone for good – or at least for the next 100 years,” Bullivant says. “Cultural religious identities just aren’t being passed on from parents to children. It just washes straight off them.”

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TOPICS: Islam; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: brexit; europeanunion; faithandphilosophy; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; islam; jeremycorbyn; labourparty; nato; richarddawkins; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 03/25/2018 5:55:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Islam is a curse on nations that forget God.


2 posted on 03/25/2018 5:59:59 PM PDT by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: marshmallow

Good Bye Europe. Once freedom is lost, ya gotta pay a big, Big, BIG price to get it back - IF you can get it back . . . .
Ya heard it here first.

Snoot


3 posted on 03/25/2018 6:01:32 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: marshmallow

And Richard, you helped to bring it about.


4 posted on 03/25/2018 6:02:09 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: marshmallow

Oh, is he just waking up to that fact? Gee....he must be Smart!!!


5 posted on 03/25/2018 6:02:58 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: marshmallow

Absolutely correct.


6 posted on 03/25/2018 6:03:38 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: marshmallow

Realization comes too late for those who have forsaken all wisdom and said “there is no God”.


7 posted on 03/25/2018 6:04:00 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: marshmallow

He was great on Hogan’s Heroes.


8 posted on 03/25/2018 6:04:36 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: marshmallow

>>On Wednesday, the atheist author and evolutionary biologist warned those inclined to “rejoice at the death throes of the relatively benign Christian religion” to keep in mind the danger of “something worse” taking its place.

So, he finally admits to being an idiot. Humans want religion. It is in our DNA. He and his kind took the only one that actually connects us to God away from our culture. It was replaced with mysticism, paganism, and the anti-christianity.


9 posted on 03/25/2018 6:04:58 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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10 posted on 03/25/2018 6:06:52 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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And Richard, you helped to bring it about.

Dawkins telling the truth didn't bring this about. The trouble with Islam has to do with the culture of it's Arab practitioners.

11 posted on 03/25/2018 6:08:17 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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I wonder if Dawkins will ever regret all he did to try to cover for the encroaching anti-theism that he promoted.


12 posted on 03/25/2018 6:12:49 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: Lera
Islam is a curse on nations that forget God.

Well and concisely said. Bravo.

Mr. Dawkins has got it in reverse. Christianity is not dying. Europe is dying, and sadly so. They've rejected God and God has handed Europe over to Satan for a time. Islam is one of Satan's agents.

When the true and holy Word of God is defamed as "hate speech", not just in Europe but also Canada and soon California, New York, etc. it is right for God to turn his protection and providence from them.

13 posted on 03/25/2018 6:14:17 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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Thanks marshmallow. It'll almost be worth it if I get to watch the Islamofascists behead Richard Dawkins.

14 posted on 03/25/2018 6:17:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Do you think he understands the irony of that?


15 posted on 03/25/2018 6:19:58 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: marshmallow

Indeed.
There is nothing worse than Islam.


16 posted on 03/25/2018 6:22:30 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Poison Pill
The trouble with Islam has to do with the culture of it's Arab practitioners.

You have it backwards.

Arab culture is the way it is because of Islam.

17 posted on 03/25/2018 6:23:32 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: dfwgator

Richard did gloss over that blatant inconvenient fact.


18 posted on 03/25/2018 6:26:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marshmallow

Anything other than Christianity is something worse.


19 posted on 03/25/2018 6:26:22 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Lera

Jesus loves me yes I know. No fear.


20 posted on 03/25/2018 6:28:59 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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