Famous atheist‚ author‚ and biologist Richard Dawkins surprised fans around the world this week when he called himself a ‘cultural Christian’ and declared the United Kingdom a ‘Christian nation.’ "If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam‚ I'd choose Christianity every single time." Self-proclaimed 'cultural Christian'‚ @RichardDawkins‚ tells @RachelSJohnson he's 'slightly horrified' to hear Ramadan lights were hung on Oxford Street rather than Easter lights. pic.twitter.com/ZY2ePfpms1— LBC (@LBC) March 31‚ 2024 “I must say I’m slightly horrified to hear that Ramadan is being promoted instead‚” Dawkins said in an interview Sunday. “I feel that we are a Christian country.” “It’s true that statistically‚ the number of people who actually believe in Christianity is going down and I’m happy with that‚ but I would not be happy if‚ for example‚ we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches. So‚ I count myself a cultural Christian. I think it would matter if we… substituted any alternative religion‚ that would be truly dreadful‚” he added. “It seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion in a way that I think Islam is not.”