From the UK Telegraph: In a pronouncement that will dismay America’s religious Right, which has long voiced suspicions about Potter’s “anti-Christian” message, the 19-year-old actor said he did not believe in God.
He also expressed his admiration for Professor Richard Dawkins, the prominent atheist and bete noir of Evangelical Christians.
Radcliffe has been reticent on the subject of religion in the past, but in an interview to promote the latest instalment in the film franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, released on July 15, he said: “I’m an atheist, but I’m very relaxed about it. I don’t preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do. Anything he does on television, I will watch.”
He joked: “There we go, Dan, that’s half of America that’s not going to see the next Harry Potter film on the back of that comment.”
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I just heard about this, from the look of things the only people who give a flying frak are atheists/freethinks etc.
No posts of condemnation from the religious that I could find, seen anything along those lines by any chance?
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