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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Sunday March 25 2018, @09:49PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Sunday March 25 2018, @09:49PM (#658089) Journal

    But the labels are misleading because people use them in different ways.

    You've put your finger on a significant issue:

    • Theism: belief in a god or gods
    • Atheism: Without belief in a god or gods
      • Agnosticism: without knowledge of (and therefore, without belief in) a god or gods (agnosticism ⊆ or ⊂ atheism)

    Whereas some theists often like to imagine that atheism means believing there is no god (it doesn't), and some agnostics like to explain that they're not atheists (they are), and some atheists like to pretend they know there is no god (they don't.)

    What a mess. It's no wonder so many people have so much trouble talking about these issues.

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