Sunday, March 18, 2012

Richard Dawkins has uncovered a very British form of Christianity | Linda Woodhead

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British perspective as part of their culture and religion. But lack of faith does not make us strict secularism

There is nothing new in the findings of Richard Dawkins on the British way of being religious. But it's always good to remember the findings of a survey commissioned by the Foundation for Reason and Science: that most of us are not true believers "in either religion or secularism, and the Britain is not a religious or secular country, one, but an interesting combination of both. This does not make us confuse, or wool, or confused - does not just us Brits

We have always been conservative by instinct bright eyes, an enthusiastic fan, whatever their color. In fact, they do great ideologies and revolutions - and when we do we never see them until the end. We prefer proposals modest, pragmatic solutions, and a bit of confusion - as long as it works. As rightly pointed out in Kate Fox Watching the English, our natural response to anyone who believes their own propaganda too is: "Oh, come outside."

Dawkins seems surprised that most of us call ourselves Christians (72% in the 2001 census of population, 54% of their sample of just over one thousand people ), but not we read our Bibles every day, going to church a lot, to know the name of the first book of the New Testament, or think they know the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth. Therefore, is inclined to dismiss it as we, is not truly Christian, and - probably - on the road to the kind of enlightened secularism he preaches. I fear this is likely to be disappointed, and his own poll tells us that some of the reasons.

The fact that most of us still call us Christians, when circumstances require or forces us to choose the survey is not as insignificant as Dawkins thinks. There are important reasons why we do, and your survey reminds us of some of them. They were confirmed by numerous studies on religion or the British program, including the initiative to the most recent research conducted on the largest and religion in this country of 12 million, religion and society books, I directs.
  • The most important reason relates to our most cherished values, our basic sense of ethics. So in answer to the question in the survey by Dawkins: "Which of the following describes what being Christian means to you personally" The largest number (58%), check "I try to be a good person. " When I ask people in interviews if they call themselves Christians, they often say something like, "Well, I think so." This is an aspiration as much as the affirmation, a sense that Christianity gives us still good advice on how we should live, and that values ??such as love, tenderness, think of others before yourself and do what you are by "more important. Maybe somewhere in the back of our minds that still retain the image of a man on a cross, and remember their message that the power of heroic world is not what really matters and that there are things worth dying for.
There are other reasons for the acceptance of a Christian label. An important, it has to do with believers and with the accession. This may be tribal, or have a member of the class, but I think this aspect has decreased dramatically since the 1960s at the beginning (as the element of national identity). Membership also has to do with what the anthropologist calls Abby Day "native" - ??the mere fact of being baptized Christian, which means something important about family ties and continuity from generation to generation . And it can mean loyalty to a locality and the neighborhood, a place and a building, and for a particular congregation or a larger group of like-minded people. It is absurd to say that these commitments do not matter, or did not -. Remaining part of the fabric of our towns, villages, families and lives

which makes most of us Christian to the end. We are critical of many aspects of the church, do not spend ages poring over the doctrine that the clergy do not want to tell us what to do, and we are deeply committed to certain secular values. Unfortunately for Dawkins, however, does us no good secular - especially when you add in its finding that most of us still believe in heaven, hell, the power of prayer, and the "destination". Dawkins commented that it sounds as if I feel that there is no shock, banner bearers all biblical Christians. Go Richard -. It speaks of the UK


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