{"id":13098,"date":"2011-05-19T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2011-05-19T10:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:18:29","slug":"richard-dawkins-thinks-religion-is-hijacking-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-thinks-religion-is-hijacking-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins thinks religion is &#039;hijacking&#039; the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/richarddawkins.net\/articles\/628299-don-t-let-religion-hijack-the-bible-says-richard-dawkins\">here<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13103\" title=\"Dawky\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dawky1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Religion should not be allowed to \u201chijack\u201d the great cultural resource of the Bible, according to the atheist scientist Professor Richard Dawkins.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by the Labour MP Frank Field, chairman of the King James Bible Trust, what the Bible meant to him, he said: \u201cI think it is important to make the case that the Bible is part of our heritage and it doesn\u2019t have to be tied to religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s of historic interest, it\u2019s of literary interest, and it\u2019s important that religion should not be allowed to hijack this cultural resource.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t appreciate English literature unless you know something about the Greek gods. You can\u2019t appreciate Wagner unless you know something about the Norse gods. You can\u2019t appreciate English literature unless you are to some extent at least steeped in the King James Bible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Dawkins wants Christendom without Christianity, Western civilisation without the bedrock on which it was founded and morality without God. Well, he can\u2019t have them.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is trying to hijack the Bible, it is Dawkins and his coterie of cockamamie atheists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Religion should not be allowed to \u201chijack\u201d 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-thinks-religion-is-hijacking-the-bible\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[2055,2238],"class_list":["post-13098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-dawkins","tag-bible","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}