From here:
Religion should not be allowed to “hijack” the great cultural resource of the Bible, according to the atheist scientist Professor Richard Dawkins.
Asked by the Labour MP Frank Field, chairman of the King James Bible Trust, what the Bible meant to him, he said: “I think it is important to make the case that the Bible is part of our heritage and it doesn’t have to be tied to religion.
“It’s of historic interest, it’s of literary interest, and it’s important that religion should not be allowed to hijack this cultural resource.
“You can’t appreciate English literature unless you know something about the Greek gods. You can’t appreciate Wagner unless you know something about the Norse gods. You can’t appreciate English literature unless you are to some extent at least steeped in the King James Bible.”
This is extraordinarily absurd, even for Richard Dawkins. Without Christianity, which he so despises, there would have been no Bible; without the Church, which he so loathes, the Bible would not have been preserved and without faithful Christians, who Dawkins keeps calling idiots, no-one would have bothered to read the Bible.
Dawkins wants Christendom without Christianity, Western civilisation without the bedrock on which it was founded and morality without God. Well, he can’t have them.
If anyone is trying to hijack the Bible, it is Dawkins and his coterie of cockamamie atheists.
The bible isn’t an example of morality.
Professor Dawkins is correct in what he is saying. The argument highlighted here is flawed as for example how has any other famous piece of literature survived? The Greek myths and stories and so on? No-one still worships Zeus (in any great number anyway) but we know of his legends etc. The bedrock of any society has to be what came first i.e the foundation and as we all know that was not Christianity in any country…indeed it was not any religion.