BBC interview of Richard Dawkins

Dawkins is an ardent and outspoken atheist, an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society[33], vice-president of the British Humanist Association and a Distinguished Supporter of the Humanist Society of Scotland. In his essay "Viruses of the Mind" (from which the term "faith-sufferer" originated), he uses memetic theory to analyse and seek to explain the phenomenon of religious belief and some of the common characteristics of organised religions, such as the belief that punishment awaits non-believers.