We have seen how the state gets involved personal and collective conscience, without guaranteeing, as prescribed by the Constitution, the rights related to the free development of the personality, such as ideological, religious and cult freedom. We know how the state invades personal and collective conscience by making the subject of Catholic religion official at school. We know how the state, from a religious point of view, intervenes in women's decision-making rights, by reforming the law on voluntary termination of pregnancy. We know how the state infringes on conscience by codifying Catholic religious protocols in state actions. We know how the state fails to comply with the Constitution, which is contrary to the equality of citizens before the law and respect for their freedom of conscience.
We have become convinced of the role of atheism as a catalyst for transformative forces. The International Federation of Atheists It consists of men and women who are certain of the need to renounce the idea of God, to combat the fatal error of this belief and to gradually limit the influence of religions and their related ideologies in our respective societies, which a threat to the full development of civil rights and freedoms in political systems.
In a world divided by ignorance, only the atheist refuses to deny the obvious: religious belief promotes human violence at an astonishing level. Religion Inspires Violence: People often kill other people because they believe that the Creator of the Universe wants them to do so. Examples of this type of behavior are numerous, the most prominent of which are jihadist suicide bombers. On the other hand, more and more people are leaning towards the religious conflict, simply because their religion is at the core of their moral identity. One of the enduring pathologies of human culture is the tendency to raise children in fear and to demonize other people based on religion.
Only the atheist realizes how mysterious our current situation is: most people believe in a God who is in every respect as fantastic as the gods of Olympus; No person, regardless of his or her merits and abilities, can hold public office in the United States unless he or she professes to be fully convinced that God exists; and much of government policy responds to religious taboos and superstitions typical of a medieval theocracy.
Atheism is a term that shouldn't even exist. Atheism is nothing more than manifesto protest by reasonable people in the presence of religious dogmas. The atheist is simply one who believes that those who claim never to doubt the existence of God are the ones obliged to provide proof of his existence and his benevolence, given the brutal destruction of innocent people that we witness daily of his world.
It is inevitable to wonder how enormous a catastrophe is and must be before it shakes the faith of the world. The Nazi Holocaust did not. Not even the Rwandan genocide, although the perpetrators also included priests armed with machetes. In the twentieth century, five hundred million people died from smallpox, many of them children. The ways of God are unsearchable, they say. It seems that any event, no matter how unfortunate, can be compatible with religious belief. In matters of faith, we have lost all faith contact with reality. Now we live the tragic example of the genocidal state of Israel against the Palestinian people and the countless wars promoted by humans, and that if there were a benevolent God, he could not agree to it.
It is absurd to suggest, as the moderately religious, that a rational person can believe in God simply because this belief makes him happy, because it alleviates his fear of death or because it gives meaning to his life. The absurdity becomes clear the moment we exchange the concept of God for another proposal of comfort.
People of faith claim that God is not responsible for human suffering, but inconsistency arises when it is claimed that God is both omniscient and omnipotent. If God exists, he cannot do anything to stop the most terrible disasters, or he has no desire to do so. God is therefore powerless or evil. Some say that God cannot be judged by simple human moral standards. But human standards of morality are precisely what believers use to determine the goodness of God in the first place. And any God who cares about something as trivial as gay marriage, or the name the faithful address him by in prayer, is not as inscrutable as he seems. If he existed, the God of Abraham would be utterly despicable: not only would he be unworthy of the immensity of creation, but he would be unworthy even of man himself.
The goal of civilization cannot be that mutual tolerance nor demonstrate irrationality. While all adherents of the liberal religious discourse have agreed to tiptoe around those points where their worldviews collide head-on, those same points will remain sources of ongoing conflict for their co-religionists. Political correctness therefore does not provide a sustainable basis for human cooperation. If religious war is to be made unthinkable to us, in the same way that slavery and cannibalism already are, this will only be possible if we abandon all dogmas of faith.
Auschwitz, the Gulag and the extermination camps They are not examples of what happens when people become overly critical of unwarranted beliefs; Rather, these horrors are evidence of the dangers of not thinking critically enough about specific secular ideologies. It goes without saying that a rational argument against religious belief is not an argument for blindly embracing atheism as dogma. The problem exposed by the atheist is nothing other than the problem of dogma itself. There is no society in recorded history that has suffered because its people have become too reasonable.
I am an atheist because this is the basis for a humanism that is far removed from dogma and oppression. Between belief in an impossible god, I choose imperfect humanity, free from sacred stories, which dominate religions and sects. What characterizes us, atheists, is not so much the spread of the idea – something that remains in the domain of the intimate and personal – but the defense of secularism: a society without religious ties, in freedom and equality of circumstances and opportunities. Social consciousness and politics united for the common good. Religion cannot become a proven faith and an unshakable truth through institutional power. After all, religious belief is the act of stopping reason. I am an atheist because reason is the greatest attribute of man..
Religious faith is powerful obstacle to dialogue. Religion is nothing other than the domain of our discourse in which people systematically protect themselves from the demand to provide evidence in defense of their firmly held beliefs. Free thinking never stops when fetishism is confronted.
The time has come to come together in a society that takes shape in a clear and effective conspiracy against all forms of irrationalism.