Richard Dawkins' Double Speak Is Not New 

Dawkins: "I want a Christian country 😔" Dawkins 5 mins later: "lmao you don't actually believe in Jesus, do you?? 😂😂"

Hmm. He didn't view Christianity as fundamentally decent when he had me thrown out of one of his lectures for asking the wrong questions in 1994.

What a great analogy you gave Glenn of Richard Dawkins being a bird who pecked at the seed being sown and later perched in the tree that the seed of Christianity had grown int..

Richard Dawkins (et al) remind me of: '"I stopped outside a church house Where the citizens like to sit They say they want the Kingdom But they don't want God in it"' (Johnny Cash, The Wanderer).

Maybe I'm just not in a charitable mood but the more I see of the inconsistencies in so called 'academic thought' the more I see it as spiritually parasitic. Not only do I not see why I should not take people like Dawkins seriously, I don't see why they take themselves seriously. How do you have a good faith conversation with someone who fundamentally doesn't understand faith at all - even when it crops up in their own worldview? Anyway, Happy Easter.

Love the 'biological life from non-life' challenge to skepticism re the resurrection!

Great response! Came here from Truth Unites / Gavin Ortlund

The decrease in churches going public, could it be Dawkins anti Christianity narrative, for years, instead of blaming Islam ?

Hats off to you, sir. The best rebuttal of Dawkins I've seen.

Gavin from Truth Unites recommended your Channel. Already subscribed! Great content!!! Will be a regular viewer. Dawkins is thankfully slowly realizing we need God.

Another excellent message, well done Glen

I prefer a Christian culture/society, but it doesn't happen by itself without the values becoming deep conviction in the heart/soul/spirit of individuals in a society. Social Christianity has no staying power devoid of its actual core values and tenets of the faith.

As a US citizen who lived in the UK for over ten years, I would say that the situations regarding Christianity and culture are not nearly as great as Glen suggests. I fear he is relying too much on social media, which tends to exaggerate the presence of "Christian Nationalism" and the like here.

There's a famous quote about the preservation of ashes vs the stoking of a fire and what Dawkins is unironically advocating is the preservation of the ashes of our culture.

Thanks very much for that. Really appreciated it.

Love your observations Glen! Listening to ‚the air we breath‘ and it’s so interesting how much I used to just take for granted.

He must have read Tom Holland's book "Dominium"

Great commentary Glen, loved the Seed to Tree bit and the gaping contradiction in RD's overall - but consistent - view. Great stuff.

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. If it were possible. They have the form of godliness but deny its source.

I heard Richard Dawkins on LBC about ten years ago, pushing his new book for children, in which he claimed the Gospels are silly because, (he gave an example of a story in one of the non canonical, gnostic gospels) is silly. He then said he knows it's not in the Bible but that's only by chance. So basically he wants' to educate children into circular reasoning, ie the Gospels are irrational, therefore what is a gospel is an irrational choice, therefore I can irrationally use a non canonical gospel to show that the canonical gospels are irrational ?

an argument isn't refuted by laughing at it

We all know that the virgin birth of Christ and his resurrection are naturally and humanly impossible. But the cause of both events is supernatural and divine. I don't think Richard Dawkins has the authority and competence to deny these types of causes.

The image of the seed-pecking birds that also want to sit on the branches of the tree (and nest there!) is so great! I never stopped at this biblical phrase before but with Dawkins in the picture it makes sense on a deeper level!

I love “Reading between the Lines.”

Trans day of visibility? This not only occupies the same day as Easter, it is in direct opposition, and competes against Easter

I'm a cultural Christian. Culture is important. We should value such a heritage. I'm glad to hear that Richard Dawkins thinks like this.

Kind of feels to me like Pascal's bet. A deeply rationnal way to advocate for christianity, but so utterly soulless that it'd make being a christian senseless (notwithstanding that Pascal of course was himself a deeply mystical believer in the latter part of his life).

Glen, what would it take for you to get an interview with Dawkins or to get yourself interviewed on LBC? I would be far less likely to shout imprecatory psalms at my TV if you were there to counter the objections. 😉

Good seed point Glen !

Rachel Johnson wants women's rights, but not unborn children's rights. I don't want to be put down, but I want to be able to put others down. And since when was the right to life of the unborn a "fundamentalist Christian" issue. No, pro life has been part of mainstream Christianity from the beginning. All human beings are valuable in the sight of God.

Thank you

He is now seeing the fruits of his labour... bless...

Can I buy a speak life cup?

Great commentary, thankyou 👍

Awesome breakdown thank you

Will Keep Praying for Richard Dawkins!

I hope Rachel does your 321 course

Great commentary, as always.

It is ok to change your mind. Most people do. But acknowledge it

Nice sweatshirt!

I love the fragment you show of Rachel Johnson being completely flustered by some basic and obvious questions.

Oh Rachel your 2 year old never asked that question, what a pack of lies..

Richard Dawkins: proof of a living contradiction. Fascinating concept

Something else will flood in? Something else has.

Great video guys. That plug for Between the Lines was natch.

Appreciating English culture, I also find contentment as the number of English people decreases yearly, yet can we all feign Englishness? How does this even make sense?

What does it mean that "the secular is a gift from Christianity"? Can someone explain this?

Christianity alone gives us freedom to choose...Dawkins is getting it.

Preventing women from killing their offspring is fundamentalism and regression. Listen to this woman. They speak of baby butchery as a female right. But any violence perpetrated upon women is an unequivocal evil. I don't see how one act of violence upon a vulnerable person is not only acceptable but a right while the other is a horrific abuse and unacceptable.

Nietzsche answers this in beyond good and evil. And it seems we are still stuck in that neurosis of the theistic answer being rejected for the cultrual and moral one.

I think that Dawkins finally understood what is the alternative. Four atheists promised that society will flourish if everyone became secular, just as libertarians promised that economy will flourish if you ban state, court, taxes and flags. But neither of these scenarios is viable, and Dawkins realised that decline of Christianity will only create vacuum for sinister ideologies.

While I agree with everything you're saying about Dawkins, you're implying like so many others have that Transgender Day of Visibility was established intentionally to coincide with Easter in 2024. Your error is understandable and I thought that too initially, largely due to the media making the connection. However, in fact Transgender Day of Visibility has been observed each year on March 31 since 2009. It just happened to fall on Easter this year.

From what I've seen of Dawkins he does not seem to live up to the intellect that many people credit him with. His arguments often seem reductive, willfully ignorant and intellectually dishonest. (E.g. a randomly created universe is more easily explained than a creator god, ergo the latter is implausible. Huge assumption there that the simpler explanation must be the correct one. I wonder if he'd be so fast to dismiss the laws of thermo-dynamics)

Reason is the bulwark against any religion. Dawkins asks Rachel reasonable questions.

You ask if Easter matters? And you talk about other events placed in the same day? Easter is great for many people of either belief or secular thought for various reasons. If something else correlate that's just how the calendar rolls. Isn't it important to coexist and celebrate on behalf of each other?

Easy there, tiger! Trans day of visibility is always March 31, but Easter is on a different day every year.

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I love the fact LBC didn't even bother to use a service that won't give them a warning mid interview. So amazingly professional.

Well, let's be straight. He's up a mountain, it's Sunday am, he hears the bells of the local church. Cherry on the cake. Emgland's green and pleasant land. The experience is heightened by those bells almost as much as the pub lunch to follow. Alternatively, you hear the muslim call to prayer, and everyone in your group, including the muslims, stiffen with dread. The sound of obligation. Exactly how someone would have responded to the bells a couple of hundred years ago. Dawkins likes Christianity with it's teeth pulled. Fair enough

Excellent commentary. It is difficult to do without looking like a jerk hollering from the stands.Not the emphasis of this video, but 1) I find it difficult while promoting the good of Christianity for culture, how to articulate the place of minority groups. How do I find a place for LBGTQIA+ without throwing them off a roof as might be done in a Muslim community or canceling them completely from the town square. How do I permit such behavior without prohibiting or promoting it? The same applies to atheism and Islam. 2) Judaism has a large cultural and not religious segment. Can Christianity likewise? The USA is more of an idea than an ethnic foundation. Can it survive when the idea is no longer expressed?

It's actually incorrect to actually refer to the Germanic gods as 'the Norse gods'. These gods and this mythology was shared throughout the Saxon world including England, otherwise we wouldn't have place names like 'Wednesbury'. This mythology should be taught at least part of our cultural tradition.

Wrestling with religion and its place in society has its place. Judas was presumably necessary for the story being told. Truth is not found by blind obedience but through dialogue and debate.

Agree, reactionary thinking (in his case anti-woke hysteria) melts your brain

Loved the video. Just a comment on the presenter’s sorry about her two-year-old: my son is almost 3 and I am certain that he wouldn’t never ask a priest that question. Even if he did, he would have no concept of what he’s asking. I’m sure I could get him to say those words, but they would have no meaning.

Your explanation of the Church of England and the Crown had me look into peerage. British nobility, in the United Kingdom, members of the upper social class, who usually possess a hereditary title. The titled nobility are part of the peerage, which shares the responsibility of government. The peerage comprises five ranks, which are, in descending order, duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. You do realize the Jew introduced to the Peerage in 1885 influences your Church and Government. The cultural Christianity of Christianity in Europe is being influenced by NON Christians. The migration into Europe is controlled by the same Government.

Fantastic video. But surely the most preposterous belief is the belief that Rachel Johnson's 2 year old really asked that question at the end.

Your "spiritual Switzerland" has a white cross on its flag, has God in the preamble to its constitution and praises the Creator of all things in its national anthem. Nevertheless, I get your point :-). Thank you for this brilliant takedown of Richard Dawkins' thought.

Richard Dawkins would qualify eminently for the role of leader of the Anglican Church of England. Atheist but culturally appreciative, He would ensure religion was as empty as possible. How far the Anglican church hierarchy has strayed from its bible based protestant roots.

He likes the fruit, but not the tree. It's a contradicition. We as Christians should welcome Richard Dawkins to christianity and hope Jesus puts in his heart to come to Him. God bless.

I wonder if Dawkins realizes what a fool he is. To accept and want the good that God gives but deny and reject its source is lunacy.

If we can’t protect the weak unborn we will not protect the weak old, Mr. Dawkins. See who’ll speak up for you? Why should they?

Nostalgic group-identity marking has a long history, and of course seeing other groups marking their identity tends to make - especially older-people - feel uneasy. This is why even intellectually respectable folk like Dawkins fall for being "anti-woke" etc. It's better to keep your eye on the ball of reality and observe who is using nostalgia and crusted traditions to carry on making life difficult for out-groups.

Any system religion or not involvimg wrong people are no longer supportable. Whwther thats religion or anti-religions does not matter any more.

Shake the dust off your feet and seeds falling on stoney ground aren't just King James Bible, that's the phrasiology of pretty much every Bible.

i can only draw 2 possible conclusions: 1. he has realized his idea of "militant atheism" has failed him so he's trying a new approach. 2. perhaps he is rethinking his thinking and slowly coming back to God.

Next makeover - Londinistan permitting - Dawkins the Crusader!

Christianity is ‘decent’ with P Hawkins when he realises that it’s the only barrier to an Islamic state. Too many are like him.

Once Christianity became atheistic now he says its acceptable... he won that fight against Christianity but not against Islam

I'm similar to Dawkins in that I was raised in a Christian family, but stopped believing as a teen. I see myself as culturally Christian too, and unlike him, I don't have any animus for the faith at all. But surely he must recognise that Christian culture cannot endure without at least some number of people adhering to Christian faith?

Y'know, Dawkins has a point, as did Churchill before him. Our common civilisation and cultures in the West were decisively reshaped and reformed through the third root, Jerusalem. That is, Western Civilisation as we received it (for many centuries known as Christendom, the realm of Christian peoples) was formed through the countercultural -- and inevitably imperfect, mixed blessing, wheat and tares -- Christian Synthesis of the heritage of Jerusalem, Athens and Rome. With of course the onward legacy of the river valley civilisations of the fertile crescent. Yes there are many other influences, contributions and interactions, but that is the core. The key elements of that Synthesis are in the Bible, hebraic, and christian. Ac 17, 27, Romans, 1 Cor 14 v7 ff, Eph 4 vv 14 to 24 ff and esp. Matt 5 - 7, along with Exodus 20 and Lev 19 vv 15 to 18 in context, etc all are key. This includes for instance Paul endorsing core natural law, voice of conscience and the heart of logic while critiquing the appalling incoherence, folly and decadence of pagan culture on the whole, the centrality of love to God and neighbour. Etc. Where, the inherently good, uttetly wise creator God, a necessary (so eternal!) and maximally great being worthy of our fealty and responsible reasonable service of doing the good that accords with our evident nature, is the only serious candidate explanation that bridges the is-ought gap in the root of reality. The only place it can be bridged. This is so compelling a clue that it warrants Paul's "without excuse" remarks in Rom 1. And that is Dawkins' dilemma. He knows he has rejected God, but realizes that the Christian and Hebraic heritage are pivotal to civilisation. He knows evolutionary materialistic scientism cannot bridge the is-ought gap, and tends to undermine moral principles. He should know it cannot even account for brain as complex computational substrate, much less rational, responsible, warranting, credibly knowing mind, and yet he has stood up to lead the atheist charge across our cultural landscape. And now, consequences begin to mount up, Ac 27 civilisational storm consequences. I judge, we are at cultural kairos. Can we rise to the occasion?

Students what is can't recognize one another? Don't believe! Likewise be mindful unto all the Who am I? In front! Why? Ye commanded to bring to remembrance. Yes, judgment and Justice came unto them! Resting upon SUSTAINED! What is the kingdom of God, new Jerusalem, nor the new Pillar? Came to unto them! Upon all dry grounds nor the world! Yes, upon all shared Feet resting upon HIS Vineyards resting upon HIS Footstool!

I’m an atheist and culturally Christian - I understand what Dawkins means perfectly. Fundamentally, even though I’m not a believer and consider the Bible to be a fiction, sometimes wickedly so, I prefer our resultant Christian/enlightenment/secular/uniquely British culture to an Islamic one and I would fight alongside Christians to ensure that it continues. Better the devil you know.

Christianity has given us many good things and also many bad things. One of the extremely bad things which resulted in the torture and burning of literally tens of thousands of women was the belief that there was such an entity as the Devil and that certain people could access him and gain power. You can't go anywhere in Europe without coming across public squares where in times past either heretics or witches were burnt at the stake."Thou shall not allow a witch to live" is actually a quote from the Old Testament.

Dawkins "I'm on team Christian" that's what i want to hear more anti theists say. What a marvelous insanity

What a double minded fraud...

I really appreciate your podcast and commentaries, and nearly always find your insights on our faith incredibility perceptive and interesting. Can't tell you how grateful I am for your faithful exposition of the Gospel and your penetrating analysis of cultural issues from a Christ-centered perspective. But it strikes me in this reaction to Dawkins you've adopted the secularist's vocabulary of "sexual minority" when speaking about women. Other than in mostly Asian and Islamic countries women are nearly nowhere minorities. That are actually a slight majority in most western countries. It seems to me that to those who speak of "sexual minorities" either don't understand what the word minority means, or seem to be suggesting that one or more of those groups described by LGBTQAI+ designate a sex other than male or female. Not the end-all I guess, but it does seem many of the most doctrinaire argument of the cultural left depend to a very large degree on their ability to corrupt the meaning of language.

He just means the God/theology of Christianity is appalling but the purely human religion itself (when compared to Islam) is decent.

Sorry how are women treated better in the Bible? In the Bible a woman can't divorce her abusive husband? 😂😂

He views the very liberal Christianity of Europe as decent... Compared to Islam. In this same interview he distinguishes this from American Christianity. Which he views as evil. As do I.

this is a flat out lie, there is an interview with him on the bbc webpage from 2007 and he said exactly these words back then _"Monday, 10 December 2007 Dawkins: I'm a cultural Christian"_ you can read the entire article there, there is not a single change in his thinking

He still looks like an offended garden gnome, whatever he is saying.

0:04 The lens of Jesus? Great to see that some people still believe in, and guide their lives through fictitious supernatural beings. Let the delusion continue. 😊 Have a great life - this is the only one you have though - better make the most of it. Cheers.

What will take Christianity's place? Well theosophy through the Trojan horse of SEL (Social Emotional Learning ) in schools is having a good go....

He said christianity is decent compared to islam.

Christianity is not your theme park ride operators and management team.....'>.....

Clearly senile.

You either a Christian or you not .

He said it long ago he prefers Christianity then islam

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