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Richard Dawkins to Give Away Copies of the God Delusion in Islamic Countries

posted by mrpg on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:40AM   
from the stay-tuned dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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Original Submission

• Re:Atheism Re:Atheism (Score: 5, Touché) by turgid on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:30AM (2 children)

  by turgid (4318) on Sunday March 25 2018, @11:30AM (#657862) Journal

  Have you got a better one?

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  I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].

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• Re:Atheism Re:Atheism (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @04:37AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @04:37AM (#658233)

  Beer, and weed

  I'm like, totally enlightened!

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  • Re:Atheism (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday March 26 2018, @04:55PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday March 26 2018, @04:55PM (#658519) Journal

    He said enlightened, not lit.

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    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"

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