New Atheism, a personal choice or a political mandate?

In this podcast, Dr Russell Foster, in the Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London, explores ‘Public Atheism’, and how the “collective belief of no belief” attempts to eradicate religion from society, with some arguing that this causes as much violence and fear as extremists. In an age of political turbulence, terror and extremism; fear and blame are terms regularly used to describe feeling within society. Religion has been blamed for a number of violent incidences in recent years, but how much can a collective group of people who worship a particular faith be blamed over the extreme views of an individual?

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