In keeping with the standard atheist belief that morality can exist without any religious foundation, Richard Dawkins has proclaimed himself to be a ‘Cultural Christian.’ This is the guy who hoped that religious readers of his book, The God Delusion, “will be atheists when they put it down.” This is the guy who wrote that the Bible encourages “a system of morals which any civilized modern person, whether religious or not, would find — I can put it no more gently — obnoxious…”

I would encourage Christians to refrain from celebrating Dawkins ‘conversion.’ The ‘Cultural Christianity’ that Dawkins describes isn’t Christianity at all. Dawkins is adamant that he doesn’t believe Jesus to be any sort of divine deity since he still rejects the existence of any supernatural reality. He’s just conceding that there is no framework for establishing moral values in Atheism and human beings can’t live without values. Slapping the word ‘cultural’ in front of Christianity will keep his numbskull fans from realizing that he has officially endorsed ‘religion.’

Unfortunately for Dawkins, you can’t have Christianity without Christ. Removing Jesus from the equation puts the power and authority right back in the hands of men. So while Dawkins laments the growth of Islamic influences in the UK, his ‘Cultural Christianity’ cannot oppose it. His form of religion has no power.

The morality of Christianity only make sense when it is rooted in the character of Jesus Christ. If He was not God in the flesh, then his teachings are no better (or worse) than those of any other spiritual authority. Christianity, without Christ, is just as useless and absurd as atheism.

(Ephesians 2:12) …remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.