Such is the fame of celebrity UK atheist Richard Dawkins that British sociologist Professor Margaret Woodley devised a ‘Dawkins Indicator’ as a measure of community “irreligious feelings”.

Evidently Richard is pleased with the rise of the Dawkins Indicator in the UK. The website of his Richard Dawkins Foundation highlighted a recent editorial in The Guardian which concluded that: “Post-Christian Britain is now a fait accompli.” The forthcoming British census is expected to reveal that fewer than half of Britons describe themselves as Christian. Noting this, his Foundation’s website gloated: “Naturally, Richard Dawkins has had an outsized role in these changes”.

Very likely so, given Dawkins’ long and unwavering promotion of evolution as fact, and his overt hostility to the teaching of the Bible’s account of history. He has even dubbed the teaching of creation to children as ‘child abuse’, e.g. in his fiercely anti-Christian book The God Delusion (see creation.com/abuse).

But Richard’s view of Christianity is actually divided against itself, as in recent years he has reportedly made statements lamenting the decline of religion. E.g. “Ending religion is a bad idea.” Why? “People may feel free to do bad things because they feel God is no longer watching them.”

Similarly, noting that security camera surveillance of customers in shops did appear to deter shoplifting, Dawkins feared that people might feel less restrained without a “divine spy camera in the sky reading their every thought”.