How is raging atheist Richard Dawkins "celebrating" World Youth Day? While Pope Benedict blesses a million youths in Madrid, Dawkins is promoting the latest event of the "Secular Europe" campaign, launched in 2008, to attack Vatican influence.
While the site and Dawkins condemn all organized religion as pernicious, the Catholic Church is the chief target of diatribes. It features a video of Dawkins announcing a London march set for Sept. 17th.
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And it blasts the Vatican, saying
... It is extremely powerful and its "moral" crusades adversely affect the lives of millions of people in Europe and in the world.
And the site supporters's demands include a call for ...
A secular Europe -- democratic, peaceful, open and just, immune to the clandestine influence of privileged religious (or other) organizations.
What about all the immense good -- social services and health care just for starters - provided to millions by the Catholic Church?
What about the idea that the public square is open to all, religious included, in a democracy?
Think about it: Would banishing religious-based views and actions privilege atheism?
