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• W1998175034 abstract "Britain's most plangent critic of religion has set up a new campaign to support atheists, particularly in the US. Nigel Williams reports. Britain's most plangent critic of religion has set up a new campaign to support atheists, particularly in the US. Nigel Williams reports. As the media begin increasingly to focus on analyses of the US presidential candidate hopefuls, many people are now beginning to think about the consequences of the end of the Bush era. For researchers many potential changes loom — the new head of Britain's Medical Research Council, Leszek Borysiewicz, has already warned that the country's pre-eminent position in stem cell research is likely to be challenged by the lifting of the federal ban on research by the next US president. And the dominance of the Christian right under Bush has now been challenged by a new campaign to raise the voices of the US's estimated 25 million atheists. Britain's champion atheist, Richard Dawkins, is spearheading a campaign to challenge the dominance of religion in everyday life and in politics, insisting that the atheists deserve to be heard too. Atheists in the US “have been downtrodden for a very long time. So I think some sort of political organisation is what they need,” he says. Religion is noticeable in US schools, places of work and public institutions in a way that would seem inappropriate in countries like the UK. In Congress, where godlessness can equate with being unelectable, only one representative, Pete Stark, is prepared to admit to being a non-believer. According to a study published last year by the University of Minnesota, Americans distrust atheists more than any other minority group, including homosexuals, recent immigrants or Muslims. Now Dawkins, the author of The God Delusion and chair of public understanding of science at Oxford University, has set up an organisation to help atheists round the world, particularly in the US. His organisation, established this summer, complete with T-shirts bearing a large red A, is the Out Campaign. His estimates, which square broadly with official data, show that atheists in the US account for about 10 per cent of the population. Dawkins appeared as one of the stars of the Atheist Alliance convention in Crystal City, Virginia, last month. He admitted that he was a little bit hesitant about being an Englishman talking to Americans and he showed “a certain amount of deference” when asked about US politics. “But I think that this country is so powerful and what goes on politically here is so enormously influential, the rest of the world is entitled to have a say.” Although religious groups denounce him on websites and radio talk shows, he has not received abuse at public meetings; religious people tended not to turn up — “which in a way is a shame”, he said. While critical of all religions, he has a particular focus on Christianity. “To be fair, much of the bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and ‘improved’ by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries,” he writes in The God Delusion. “We pick and choose which bits of scripture to believe, which bits to write off as symbols and allegories. Such picking and choosing is a matter of personal decision, just as much, or as little, as the atheist's decision to follow this moral precept or that, was a personal decision, without an absolute foundation.” He has been encouraged in the early days for the race for president by the apparent distancing of Republican candidates from the Christian right. But he found “very depressing” the profession of faith from the Democratic candidates. “I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.” Dawkins is also keen to give the atheist stance a more positive spin from the often seen negative one — it is all too easy to frame the position as being against things rather than embracing something else. “I would like to see people encouraged to rejoice in the world in which they find themselves, the universe in which they have been born, to take full advantage of the tiny slice of eternity they have been granted.”" @default.
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