Prospect magazine recently released its 2013 Public Intellectual of the Year and Richard Dawkins, the famous British author, lecturer and of course atheist, topped the list as the world's most influential public intellectual. The poll was actually not world encompassing, with the 65-names listed basically chosen by a US and UK based expert panel.
Nevertheless, such news is welcome news and shows the issues which Dawkins has been fighting on for the better part of the last 20 years or so being spread, acknowledged and brought into the public sphere. The need for a secular-based, science-influenced and reason-oriented worldview is now more than ever not only a serious need but virtually a necessity. The religion inspired and violence dictated paradigm that have more or less held the overriding influence, at most times subtle but no less violent, in the 19th and 20th century worldview must be replaced by a science and reason based perspective. A perspective we now call secular humanism.
The fight continues on for secular humanists around the world to show by incontrovertible science and reason that the more superior, more logical, more humane alternative to approaching the most pressing issues of our time is no longer religion, but only science and reason. From global warming to pollution, from deforestation to mining, from interstellar mysteries to earthly conundrums, only science and only reason provides a better, more superior, more democratic, more egalitarian, more encompassing, more fulfilling alternative than the rigid, archaic, misogynistic, genocidal, homophobic, dehumanizing dogma of religion which is none the worst incarnated than in the Abrahamic faiths.
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