Marginalium

Interesting thoughts against the old ‘religion maintains culture’ argument.

The “cultural Christianity” argument says that atheists might not like Christianity, but they like a culture which depends on Christianity. They like open, free, thoughtful, liberal, beautiful, virtuous societies. Unmoored from a connection to Christanity, a society will gradually have less of those goods, until even atheists are unhappy.
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the Cultural Christianity argument hinges on the proposition that all liberal societies without Christianity will eventually collapse into wokeness and postmodernism. But Christianity also eventually collapsed into wokeness and postmodernism.
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If modern atheists want a society better than our current one (or rather, better than wherever modern culture is leading us) they’ll have to invent some new cultural package that’s never been seen before.

Seems to ignore the fact that Christianity, certainly since the advent of Protestantism, has great capacity for change? And that atheism in the Christian world has failed to take a significant cultural place, even during e.g. the Enlightenment and other largely secular movements?