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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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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @03:39PM
As post-theological I don't understand what all the fuss is about.
Seriously -- while I grew up in NE USA with Christians and a smattering of other religions among my friends, I was never taken to church or any other regular service. Of course I've been to weddings and funeral services, but it's a bit of a badge of honor that I've never been to a Sunday sermon (I'm over 60 now).
It was a little confusing as a young kid, for example, where did my friends go on Sunday morning and what mysterious stuff happened when they were at church? Now of course I realize that it really was "mysterious stuff" and I'm very thankful that my parents chose to stay away (and that we live in a country where it is possible to not join the religion of the locals).