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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.’

“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.”