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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @10:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @10:10AM (#658330)
    It's just the extremists on both sides.

    Both sides like their no true scotsman thing - e.g. the atheists will go around claiming that Mao and Stalin weren't true atheists in order to hold to their ridiculous unfounded faith that religion is mainly to be blamed for the great evils of this world (e.g. their popular mantra "for good people to do evil — that takes religion."). Just because Stalin studied as a priest doesn't mean he wasn't an atheist later when he initiated acts of genocide. Lots of atheists have come from religious backgrounds, so does that mean they should still be associated with the religions they left?

    Some are even stupid/ignorant enough to claim that all religions are the same and just as bad. When objectively it should be obvious that someone who closely follows the examples of the Buddhas would on average behave very differently from someone who closely follows the example of Islam's Muhammad. So saying they're all the same is as stupid and counterproductive as saying all diseases are the same e.g. the common cold is the same as malaria.

    Thus many atheists aren't so different from the religious people they look down on. And if their version of atheism becomes widespread then their "cure" will be worse than some of the other "diseases".