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

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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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Sunday March 25 2018, @02:36PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday March 25 2018, @02:36PM (#657909) Journal

    I see the problem as "religious people who were brought up with that religion but have not REALLY thought about it": those people REALLY need to look at WHY they believe what they believe.
    Do they believe it because they have thought about it A LOT and have come to their own conclusions or do they believe because of family/peer/priest pressure and that's how they were raised so that's what they've been taught to think.

    Too much of religion is not "Talk to God, decide for yourself" but "This is what you are supposed to think...because priest man tells you to think that way."

    Stop and think.
    WHY do you think there is a God?
    WHY do you believe the bible is something you should take as fact?
    AAAANNNDD have you stopped to think why you have to go to church like your parents/priest want you to when you could just sit outside and talk to God all on your own? Is it because in the church they can CONTROL the way you think and what you think (and collect money from you).

    Why do you need someone else telling you what you should think? Why not think about it and come to your OWN THOUGHTS?

    Before strapping a bomb to yourself, ask why the person telling you to do it isn't doing it themselves.

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