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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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(Score: 5, Insightful) by srobert on Sunday March 25 2018, @06:01PM
Most all my family live in the U.S and are of protestant origins. When my brother, who has lived in Japan for decades was trying to introduce our family to his new religion, he initially sited the SGI organization. Later he advised that he had been mistaken and advised that he regarded them as somewhat cultish. When religions divide, it's an interesting story. Shall we follow Ali or Abu Bakr? divides the shia from the Sunni. Shall we follow Joseph Smith, Jr. or Brigham Young? divides the Mormons from other LDS groups before the exodus to Utah. To me all religions seem like cults. Humans have a nebulous idea of god in their minds. I don't know if there is any external thing corresponding to that or not. But they make up stories about that nebulous idea and those stories are the origin of all religions.