The Burr in the Burbs

The Telegraph has this interesting article written by an avowed British atheist who is pleased to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury telling believers to stop apologizing for being a Christian. In the uber-politically correct environment of modern Britain – much like America – speaking about Christ and Christian doctrine publicly is frowned upon. Diversity means that the comfort levels of every non-Christian religious believer and every unbeliever is to be respected above all else. Christians, as the alleged dominant class, are to be marginalized to supposedly balance the historic inequities experienced by those of other faiths or no faith at all.

In any case, here is a clear-thinking atheist Englishman who recognizes the cultural debt owed by Western civilization to Christianity. He writes: “I rejoice wholeheartedly as an atheist that I live in a Christian culture….”