Richard Dawkins: The Future of Evangelicalism

The godfather of New Atheism is a Christian Nationalist success story.

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“I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer. But there is a distinction between being a believing Christian and a cultural Christian. I love hymns and Christmas carols and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos, and I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense.”

Richard Dawkins said that, and you could not generate a more deserved endgame for the whole Christian Nationalist project. Christian Nationalists are desperate for a country dominated for Christianity, and they’ve jettisoned Jesus’ actual teachings in pursuit of it. In Dawkins’ vision, they’ve got their reward: a Christian in every single way except for anything to do with Jesus; a religious faith so insipid and lifeless and that even the champion of New Atheism is a disciple.