Sacks made his comments when he delivered the first City Lecture, an event sponsored by the lord mayor of London and the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
“The millennium is a Christian time in a country where Christianity has not merely shaped our common culture and morality,” he said. “It has helped those of us who are not Christians feel that our faith has a voice in the conversation, a part to play in the building of society.
“That is why I would feel diminished if the millennium were not a time of Christian prayer and celebration.”