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Atheist author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has warned against celebrating the demise of Christianity, calling it a “relatively benign” faith compared to others, amid reports the religion is “dying” in Europe.
“Before we rejoice at the death throes of the relatively benign Christian religion, let’s not forget Hilaire Belloc’s menacing rhyme: ‘Always keep a-hold of nurse For fear of finding something worse,’” The God Delusion author tweeted to his 2.74 million followers earlier this week.
Dawkins linked to an article from The Guardian, which pointed to a recent report, Europe’s Young Adults and Religion, by Stephen Bullivant, a professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St. Mary’s University in London, to highlight Europe’s “march towards a post-Christian society.”