Richard Dawkins recently explained that he self-identifies as a cultural christian. He doesn’t believe in Deus, but he enjoys many christian traditions, including carols and hymns. This particular article is written from a Christian perspective, which I do not personally agree with, but it correctly interprets that Dawkins’ cultural christianity seems to be a dogwhistle for whiteness. Many atheists like Dawkins are cultural christians, in ways that subtly reinforce white supremacist narratives.
Dawkins is definitely not a humanist by any reasonable definition. His statements of personal bias (i.e. on the beauty of church bells versus the monstrous prayer calls of Islam) fly in the face of “nothing human is alien to me”. At this stage he’s maybe six months away from sharing a forum with Jordan Peterson or someone.
I mean he’s not wrong though, have you heard the Azan, not only it’s annoying, but tell me what to think when you’re sleeping and someone is yelling at 3am…
most church bells aren’t particularly pleasant they are just loud and sonourous i suppose but i’d rather not be hearing them than hearing them
same for grandfather clocks tbh, shut up over there and let me experience time at my own rate