Many/most authoritarian governments can’t survive with a population that has access to a free flow of information. So to keep their citizens ignorant, quite, and in fear of speaking out or organizing they make up laws to silence them. Here is a list of these laws I have come across in news articles. These laws […]
Human Rights
Human Rights v. National Interests
Human right should (always) have priority over national national interests. But this is often times not the case. Many governments in the world are top down authoritarian governments who prioritize their health and existence over the rights and interests of their citizens. These repressive governments are in a position to pass and enforce laws to […]
How Authoritarian Governments Work
Authoritarian governments work by gathering the elites in a country and forming a system that benefits them at the expense of the masses. Authoritarian governments are systems that depend on the support of those elites who have sufficient power and resources to benefit from the arrangement. They consider the rest of the population to be […]
Why Do Atheists Believe In Religious Freedom?
Atheist believe that religions are harmful to society. But we promote the idea of religious freedom for two reasons. For human rights purposes To advance secularism Human Rights It is unreasonable to punish people for things that are beyond there control. People are born into their religion and don’t have a choice about believing or […]
Misinformation Can Be Deadly
It’s estimated there have been 80,000 Russian soldiers hurt or killed in the first five months of Russia’s war in the Ukraine. And most of them were young men who couldn’t care less about Putin’s politics. They likely joined the military for economic reasons or were drafted into service. And this number doesn’t include the […]
Why It’s OK To Be Gay
The argument of whether homosexuality is genetically driven or is a personal choice is completely irrelevant. Since there is no legitimate reason people can’t be gay, it is therefore OK to be gay. Almost all objections to homosexuality are religiously motivated. But religions lack any moral authority because they are all based on false (man […]
America’s Secular Values Are Under Attack
America’s secular values are under attack by Christian Right who want to impose their radical ideologies on America’s moderate Christians, Jews, Muslims, and atheists. They want to impose their fundamentalist ideologies about marriage, family, LGBT rights, etc. on everyone, regardless of their beliefs. This isn’t religious freedom – its religious encroachment. America’s founding fathers recognized […]