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Urging the Government to make Britain a secular state, Mr Dawkins says its continued support for faith schools is a “condescending” form of indoctrination.

“A depressingly large number of intelligent and educated people, having outgrown religious faith themselves, still vaguely presume without thinking about it that religious faith is somehow good for other people, good for society, good for public order, good for instilling morals, good for the common people even if we chaps don’t need it,” the academic will say.

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