Who wants to 'purge our society of our Christian history'?
Bah, I see it's getting close to That time of year again. You know the one, the traditional pagan/secular festival that got hijacked by some Roman religion, and people are complaining about attacks on a misperceived majority faith that this poll showed us you lot don't really believe much either. But it did show that most of us are "culturally Christian" even if we don't believe. Hmm, seems we're in good company: "This is historically a Christian country. I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims. So, yes, I like singing carols along with everybody else. I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. If there's any threat these sorts of things, I think you will find it comes from rival religions and not from atheists."
~~Professor Richard Dawkins, author of the God Delusion
Although I dispute his "everyone else" bit-I never did, carols are mostly godawful songs-it's nice to know that he's got a sense of perspective. ( thanks Richard).
But, y'know, for the record, I'll update my contact details post at some point, but I still don't plan on sending any cards out, and share with Jennie a fair distaste for receiving them, so if you were planning to, do something a bit more useful with the cash, strictlytrue has the right idea.
Bah Humbug to the lot of you ;-)
~~Professor Richard Dawkins, author of the God Delusion
Although I dispute his "everyone else" bit-I never did, carols are mostly godawful songs-it's nice to know that he's got a sense of perspective. ( thanks Richard).
But, y'know, for the record, I'll update my contact details post at some point, but I still don't plan on sending any cards out, and share with Jennie a fair distaste for receiving them, so if you were planning to, do something a bit more useful with the cash, strictlytrue has the right idea.
Bah Humbug to the lot of you ;-)