{"id":15165,"date":"2011-12-17T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T15:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15165"},"modified":"2011-12-17T10:47:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T15:47:58","slug":"richard-dawkins-announces-that-he-is-a-cultural-anglican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-announces-that-he-is-a-cultural-anglican\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins announces that he is a Cultural Anglican"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas! I mean it. All that “Happy Holiday Season” stuff, with “holiday” cards and “holiday” presents, is a tiresome import from the US, where it has long been fostered more by rival religions than by atheists. A cultural Anglican (whose family has been part of the Chipping Norton Set since 1727, as you’ll see if you look around you in the parish church), I recoil from secular carols such as “White Christmas”, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and the loathsome “Jingle Bells”, but I’m happy to sing real carols, and in the unlikely event that anyone wants me to read a lesson I’ll gladly oblige – only from the King James Version, of course.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly, Dawkins is making a bid for the job of Archbishop of Canterbury when it falls vacant on Rowan\u2019s retirement next year. It should be a good fit after he grows the requisite whiskers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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