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
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday March 25 2018, @09:53PM
I think this is the problem. As soon as one claims to support a religion, they are identifying with a political organization of supposed spiritual beliefs. As such, a group think takes over from any individual search for truth and enlightenment. This almost invariably means that seeking dominion for one's religion takes precedence over any individual growth.
I believe spirituality is a search that can help a person learn more about themselves and their relationship to the world. Whether that search takes place as taking LSD, or pursuing perfect mathematical formulas, or wandering around in the wilderness, reading religious or science or historical texts, watching Monty Python skits, or whatever, whether amongst a group or alone, it does not matter. What matters is keeping it ultimately as a private, personal, individual search.