'Mary Magdalen went to the grave on the first day of the week, and had a great insight: "He is not here."' Photo: by DDP on Unsplash
Honest to God: Abigail Maxwell on being an atheist Christian
‘Christianity is the tool I use to know the world, to know myself, and to live well.’
by Abigail Maxwell
3rd September 2021
How can I claim to be Christian if I do not believe in God?
As an Anglican I said every week, ‘I believe in God the Father Almighty’. Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Christians all regularly say the same. I do not believe in an all-powerful creator, eternal and so in some way outside the universe. ‘He’ did not make the tiny wings of butterflies – that was natural selection. Nor does he find me a parking space if I pray for one. Constantine, making Christianity the ideology of his empire, did immense damage to it.
