Coming soon: An atheism school?

Dawkins, however, is scornful of postmodernism. “I would never want to indoctrinate children in atheism”, he told Mumsnet. “Instead, children should be taught to ask for evidence, to be sceptical, critical, open-minded. If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.”…

So, how would this free-thinking school be different? It would, Dawkins explained, “teach comparative religion, and teach it properly without bias”. In case you were wondering, “without bias” means “as a branch of anthropology”. What about religious texts? How exactly do you teach them “without bias”? Quite simply, you teach that they are untrue. “The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality”, Dawkins explained. “It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality.”