Atheists. Do you agree with this idea?

now why on earth would they agree with that ?

(Speaking for the US only) In the sense that the US has a population where about 80% of the people identify as Christian, then yes, we are a Christian culture. Studies also show that most of the atheists know the Bible much better than most of the Christians, so yes, the barbarians are the ones that are less familiar with the Bible, i.e. the majority of Christians.

No, I don't agree.

You might come from a christian culture, but you are no longer a christian culture, you are multicultural, and in spite of your wishful thinking, becoming predominantly secular.

For that reason, knowledge of the KJV, or the Quran, is of a lot less significance, than knowing where to find the appropriate Haynes, Manual.

As for barbarians: They are people who are still mentally in the late stone age/early bronze age, worshiping terrifying imaginary monsters, and trying to appease said monsters by trying to persuade, or force at gun/sword point, the rest of the world to believe as they do.

100% Most people in developed countries have a Christian mind and mentality. Even communism, which is a Western ideology, is based on the Bible and seeks to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth: justice and equality, but without God, because they thought there was too much abuse of power from religious institutions, but the values are the same, Christian values: justice and equality for all, as opposed to non Christian ideologies. All the money and charity donated to Third World countries by our secular governments, that is derived from the Christian values of our society.

Edit: We have a lot of values that we consider innate, but that betray our Christian roots. Example: when my parents visited South America, a little 13 yr old showed them and all the people present, a foetus in a jar. She had just had an abortion with herbs. Nobody found that shocking, only Europeans.

No. There are many influences.

Although nominally Christian, many of our traditions and holidays are from pre-Christian religions that were absorbed into Christianity when it was enforced by the Roman Empire and its successors. The idea of democracy seems to have originated with the ancient Greeks, whose religion was polytheist, although in our secular system of government (which includes those who are religious as well as those who aren't) we now include many people who wouldn't have qualified as "free men" in ancient Greek society.

And unlike Mediaevil Europe, we now tolerate those of many religions, and our society is pluralistic and diverse. Most people are happy with this, and made it so. There are of course still a few who insist on the view you quote and are intolerant of differences.

Much of our literature uses Biblical quotes, as well as Shakespearian, so some knowledge of the Bible (not necessarily the King James version) and Shakespearian plays and sonnets would help to broaden enjoyment of literature and some architecture generally. And knowledge of pre-Christian and pre-Judaic religions, like Canaanite, Babylonian and Sumerian will give an understanding of the earlier myths from which the Bible stories were derived. Ancient Greek and Roman, and Celtic, Nordic and other European religions, will give a better understanding of Arthurian and fairy tales, Easter eggs and bunny, and Santa Claus before being Christianised by being identified with St Nicholas of Myra.

Not at all.

For people to be falling away from ancient superstitions is a positive thing.

You object to barbarism? Then you should decry a book that speaks of dashing infants against rocks; which condones slavery; which commands that rape victims be forced to marry their rapists; which command people to be stoned to death; and all sorts of other brutal, atavistic things.

To hold such a book holy, to consider it sacred and necessary, is to be in no small way, barbarian.

Religions are one of the major parts of a country's culture because it affected history, architecture and ppl's mind in general. So yes, we should take good care of religions as we keep the cultural values of our motherlands, that's why I'm here but as 21 century humans we need to drawn a line between reality and ancient religious myths, that's why i'm an atheist

Well as a Christian I disagree with that if that is of any help

Being called a "barbarian" by people who still practice mythology in the 21st century is hilarious.

No, not at all.

I know the context of that -- a survey recently found that most UK residents under 35 years of age had never heard of the King James bible. The promoters of the King James bible are very upset about that, which is where the statement comes from.

It's typical bleating from traditional sheep, who can't stand that their "culture" is changing by giving up the nonsense they were raised with. I see no reason to consider it anything other than the refusal to admit to change that it is.

Peace.

I believe the proper counterpoint is "Awwww, Waaaaah!"