I liked these words from Richard Dawkins, quoted from an article in The Guardian when he was asked what he hoped atheist campaigners might achieve in America:
“I would free children from being indoctrinated with the religion of their parents or their community. I would like to free everyone from the assumption you have to be religious in order to be a decent person or to be moral. Obviously stem cell research and all the interference with scientific research that goes on should stop. Obviously the whole creationist interference with education should stop but I think, more positively, 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.”
