Atheists critical thinking and tradition Issue 6 April 2013 - In a debate last year (2012) with Rabbi Lord Sacks, Richard Dawkins was asked by a member of the audience if he brought his children up in “the atheist tradition.” To this, Dawkins replied: “There is no atheist tradition. The atheist tradition is: ‘Think for yourself. Be critical’.’’ In other words, Dawkins believes that atheism is a purely rational set of beliefs and therefore not something which can be inherited or received uncritically. We can presume that he thinks the absolute opposite is true of atheism’s arch-nemesis, religion. In the run-up to the UK census in 2011, the British Humanist Association launched a campaign urging people to identify themselves as ‘no religion’ if they did not genuinely believe in a religious tradition. The results, published in late 2012, showed that 25% of people (up from 15% in 2001) had indeed stipulated that they did not have a religion. …..by Alexander Khaleeli - See more at: islam-today.net/show.asp?idd=1948&kind=fp#sthash.6SyL49tw.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:51:06 +0000