The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend

I used to do a series of posts called "In Their Own Words". There were about 30 of them. I have a tendency to use Roman numerals when I have ideas that run too long and won't fit comfortably in one post so sometimes I spread them over one to ten posts. What I realized is that when people see Roman numerals in double digits after the title they think that they need to read all of the posts in the series to catch the drift of the post they're reading. This isn't true, but because of feedback I am slowly moving away from this type of title or limiting the posts to ten or less. This post would've normally been an "In Their Own Words" post but here it is as a stand-alone. It stands on its own merit. The rabidly anti-Christian atheist Richard Dawkins inadvertently defends a Christian position and the irony was not lost on me so I had to post this.

In a Breitbart article from September 2025, Richard Dawkins declared that “trans women are men,” and that transgender ideology is part of a movement to undermine biological truth. The world’s leading atheist and emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, Dawkins decried the infiltration of postmodernism and transgenderism into the halls of academia. He is now decrying the very thing that he does to Christians when he makes unsubstantiated absolute truth statements about Christianity which he seems to have an incomplete grasp.

Dawkins went on to further state, “Both politics and personal feelings don’t impinge scientific truths and that needs to be clearly understood. I feel very strongly about the subversion of scientific truth. I think part of what’s happened is the move of academia towards postmodernism, which is pernicious, and probably does account for the current vogue for the nonsense lie that sex is a spectrum.”

So here we have the direct statement from the preeminent expert in biological science who just happens to be a militant atheist stating that the current trend of gender identity and body dysmorphia is a mental issue not based in science at all. Furthermore, he disavows the politics behind it trying to force it into everything from entertainment to the academic fields of college campuses.

He realizes that there are in fact, absolute or objective truths. Surprisingly, this undermines his ability to refute the absolute truth claims of Christianity. By allowing himself to make absolute truth statements about gender and not allowing gender to be subjective and non-scientific he is insisting on a worldview and logic process that also needs to allow for Christians to make their claims to objective truth also.

Dawkins has even stated that, “There’s this post-modern hubris which presumptuously and falsely dismisses science as a social construct, the human conceit here is the idea that personal feelings can change reality.”

The irony is that you can replace Dawkins statements of science with religion or specifically Christianity and the statement would still be valid from Dawkins’ statement: “There’s this post-modern hubris which presumptuously and falsely dismisses religion/Christianity as a social construct, the human conceit here is the idea that personal feelings can change reality.”

Dawkins is literally arguing for support of not only his views but also Christianity (or any religion for that matter). In a war of ideas, those on the side of objective/absolute ‘truths’ like Christianity and science will often makes strange bedfellows.

While the “scientist-trans gender-ist” at first may seem as if it is amusing, what is going on in with Dawkins and other like-minded scientists might be more notable. There, the transgender siege appears to be lifting; its effectiveness is clearly on the wane.

Let us hope this modicum of reason catches hold on this side of the Atlantic not just in Oxford in England.

For me as a Christian, it has been intriguing to watch the culture wars end up on the doorstep of the atheist community. What has happened because of Dawkins’ stance is even more telling of the powers in play and the world we are currently living in. These political powers are all encompassing and are overbearing. Its influence is insidious and pervasive. Its probably worse than even I, a Christian Apologist even imagined they were. These activist ideologues are eclipsing actual scientific truths never mind the spiritual truths they are violating. Scientific and spiritually logical truths which are both based on legitimate Aristotelian philosophy.

The repercussions for Dawkins? The American Humanist Association has already withdrawn Dawkins’ “Humanist of the Year” award in 2021. The organization justified the move based on the biologist’s “history of making statements that use the guise of scientific discourse to demean marginalized groups, an approach antithetical to humanist values.”

While I have to admit, because of my constant debates and arguments with intellectually arrogant atheists, there is more than a touch of smirking from me watching the anti-theists realize that the atheist “apocalypse” they are experiencing is just as dogmatic as the Christianity they disparage or even hate. It has all come home to roost right on their doorstep. So, unless Christians befriend them (pray for them) in what needs to be understood as a spiritual war, they will be hapless. They would be doomed because they don’t even believe in the powers and entities they’re truly battling…they don’t believe or acknowledge the spiritual realm exists.

I will acknowledge that it the notion of “humanist values” has always been nebulous at best, but it is usually based in a firm belief and understanding that science correctly deduced is objective truth. So, for the Humanist Society to fold to these politics is astounding and I can only attribute its power to do so as being spiritual in source. Science endeavors to demonstrate what is; the idea of a godless ideology is overriding this shows its enormous power over the world.

I suppose Dawkins is to be commended for his defense of biology against the transgender assault on scientific truth but he needs to realize in doing so that he inadvertently is defending the objective philosophical truths of Christianity. He can’t have it both ways. If you’re going to fight and fend for the veracity of objective/absolute truths being real in science…you cannot deny them to Christianity. It becomes double standard and hypocritical. Strange bedfellows indeed.

We need to remember that Dawkins has long championed a humanist post-Christian society that has made the transgender movement not just possible, but perhaps even inevitable. Two avenues or routes to the same end. By his arguing against Christianity and belittling of it, he opened the door to everything godless including the very things he is now fighting against. Conversely, before we become too optimistic over the reasons that Dawkins is defending his science or other “defenders of truth,” we should recognize that atheists are doing this for their own selfish reasons and as soon as they destroy this current ‘anti-science’ enemy (which Christians in fact are not), they will just turn on us anyway. We will be adversary number one again instead of being the second most hated enemy. Since they are helping us in our cause we should assist them until at such a time they turn back against us.