Richard Dawkins: Churchgoers enable fundamentalists by being ‘nice’

August 13, 2014 Because moderate Christians and Muslims are so pleasant people believe that religion is good, decent, ordinary churchgoers have helped enable religious fundamentalists to become suicide bombers by being “so nice” that people do not question their faiths, Richard Dawkins has argued. Dawkins, the evolutionary scientist and outspoken atheist, said moderate Christian and…

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Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka warns of religion’s roll call of death

August 10, 2014 Atrocities carried out by fanatics such as Nigeria’s Boko Haram show the dangers of religious belief with the “scroll of faith … indistinguishable from the roll call of death”, according to the Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka. In a video address to the World Humanist Congress, at which he will be presented…

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