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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: 1) by khallow on Monday March 26 2018, @04:32PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 26 2018, @04:32PM (#658504) Journal

    Here are the "it didn't happen here" US-only statistics for the Vietnam war:

    Vietnam is not in North America or Europe.

    Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile. As we have seen. No US government legislation or enforcement should be undertaken backing a specifically religious position. Ever. That's important. If you can't see it, that's a problem with your cognitive process, not a problem with "whining about blue laws."

    They didn't get that mile. Most blue laws have been overturned. Same goes for the other stuff.

    No, you're not thinking. You're just arguing. Poorly. I expected more from you. Sometimes you present very well thought out arguments. Here, you're not even trying.

    Maybe you ought to address the beam in thy own eye first.

    Let me elaborate. First, as I already noted, Europe and North America have been peaceful for a number of decades. Wars outside of those regions don't count, because they're not in those regions. And of the wars of the past (up to the Second World War) most were due to rival ideologies like Communism, Fascism, and French/German Nationalism. Second, the Christianity of the region has come up with some pretty cool ideas like science, academic culture, just war and the Western take on pacifism, modern Western art, and well over a thousand years of advancement in Western philosophy and ideas.