Richard Dawkins is responding to what he called the "stirring towards atheism" in some Islamic countries with a programme to make free downloads of his books available in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian.
The scientist and atheist said he was "greatly encouraged" to learn that the unofficial Arabic pdf of the book had been downloaded 13m times. Dawkins writes in The God Delusion about his wish that the "open-minded people" who read it will "break free of the vice of religion altogether". It has sold 3.3m copies worldwide since it was published in 2006 – far fewer than the number of Arabic copies that Dawkins believes to have been downloaded illegally.
Richard Dawkins to give away copies of The God Delusion in Islamic countries
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:28AM (3 children)
You think that's the path to enlightenment?
(Score: 5, Touché) by turgid on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:30AM (2 children)
Have you got a better one?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @04:37AM (1 child)
Beer, and weed
I'm like, totally enlightened!
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday March 26 2018, @04:55PM
He said enlightened, not lit.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"