![]() ![]() You are on record as saying, “I am not a Christian,” but now you’re saying you’re a sort of one. said to me on the radio, “You’re not a Christian,” and I laughed and said, “No”. But I felt, “Oh dear, there’s a cock crowing,” and the reason I didn’t admit it was because it’s really uncool.īut, well, I’m not sure I am, really. I end up just saying I believe in belief, and I keep wanting. I believe in other people’s belief, in being genuine. Richard Dawkins spoke to Nick Pollard in February 1995. Suppose some lads break into an old man’s house and kill him. He was old and sick, and he didn’t contribute anything to society.” How would you show them that what they had done was wrong? Suppose they say: “Well, we accept the evolutionist world view. If somebody used my views to justify a completely self-centred lifestyle, which involved trampling all over other people in any way they chose. I think I would be fairly hard put to it to argue on purely intellectual grounds. They’ll say, “This is the society we want to live in.” Without having a rational reason for it necessarily, I’m going to do whatever I can to stop you doing this.” I think it would be more: “This is not a society in which I wish to live. I couldn’t, ultimately, argue intellectually against somebody who did something I found obnoxious. I think I could finally only say, “Well, in this society you can’t get away with it,” and call the police. John Stott spoke to Roy McCloughry in June 1995. Some people might divide your ministry into two halves: one focused on pietism, and one concerned with the very broadest social, cultural, and economic aspirations of society. As I read and studied and meditated, my vision of God grew, and I came to see the obvious things: that he is not just interested in religion but in the whole of life, and - in the old phrase - in justice as well as justification. I don’t see any dichotomy between the “pietistic” and the cultural and social. To me, they’re two aspects of the same thing: a pursuit of the will of God. ![]()
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