{"id":16529,"date":"2012-05-22T17:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T21:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16529"},"modified":"2012-05-22T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T21:37:37","slug":"richard-dawkins-thinks-the-bible-will-put-children-off-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-thinks-the-bible-will-put-children-off-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins thinks the Bible will put children off Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2012\/may\/19\/richard-dawkins-king-james-bible\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For some reason the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK) was not approached for a donation in support of Michael Gove&#8217;s plan to put a King James Bible in every state school. We would certainly have given it serious consideration, and if the trustees had not agreed I would gladly have contributed myself.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;..]<\/p>\n<p>I have an ulterior motive for wishing to contribute to Gove&#8217;s scheme. People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the &#8220;millionaire Conservative party donors&#8221;. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is clearly a case of projection: Dawkins believes the Bible will put people off Christianity in the same way that his books have put people off atheism. Considering that there are about 2.2 billion Christians in the world who believe the Bible, it doesn&#8217;t appear to be the case. So much for Dawkins&#8217; claim that he is convinced by evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: For some reason the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK) was not approached for a donation in support of Michael Gove&#8217;s plan to put a King James Bible in every state school. We would certainly have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-thinks-the-bible-will-put-children-off-christianity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[2055,2238],"class_list":["post-16529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-dawkins","tag-bible","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}