{"id":21559,"date":"2014-05-26T21:17:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T01:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21559"},"modified":"2014-05-27T08:26:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T12:26:19","slug":"richard-dawkins-the-secular-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-the-secular-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins the secular Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/richard.dawkins.first.he.was.a.cultural.anglican.now.hes.a.secular.christian\/37673.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would describe myself as a secular Christian in the same sense as secular Jews have a feeling for nostalgia and ceremonies,&#8221; said Dawkins.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>Dawkins grew up in the Anglican faith but became atheist in his teens. Last year, he said in an interview with The Spectator that he could be described\u00a0as a &#8220;cultural Anglican&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone claiming to be a secular Christian is about as sensible as someone claiming to be a boiled kipper.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Dawkins also sees himself as a \u201ccultural Anglican\u201d appears \u2013 to me, at least &#8211; rather less oxymoronic since the recent divorce between Christianity and Western Anglicanism; it&#8217;s common knowledge that many North American Anglican bishops believe themselves to be boiled kippers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: I would describe myself as a secular Christian in the same sense as secular Jews have a feeling for nostalgia and ceremonies,&#8221; said Dawkins. [\u2026.] Dawkins grew up in the Anglican faith but became atheist in his teens. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-the-secular-christian\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[407,2049,2238],"class_list":["post-21559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-dawkins","tag-anglicanism","tag-atheism","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559","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=21559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}