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There are a number of countries where atheism (as apostasy or blasphemy) is punishable by death: Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pak
by fppasq 4y ago
There are a number of countries where atheism (as apostasy or blasphemy) is punishable by death: Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
- coldtea 4y agoAnd nobody argued that there aren't. The charitable interpretation (and the obvious one to me) is that the parent is speaking about the US/West.
- trasz 4y agoIn many western countries you can be prosecuted for not following certain religious dogmas, like Catholic views on sexuality and reproductive rights.
- coldtea 4y agoIn some western countries you can be prosecuted for not following the law, which might be inspired by "Catholic views on sexuality and reproductive rights" (e.g. if you do X and X is forbidden) but which is a different thing.
- trasz 4y agoIt’s exactly the same thing: penalizing people in the name of religion. There are no examples in the other direction, ie penalizing people in the name of atheism.
- coldtea 4y ago>ie penalizing people in the name of atheism. You'd be surprised. It has happened in revolutionary France, up to and including civil war Spain, USSR, China, and several other times and places besides...
- trasz 4y agoThis is something that's often said, but it's just not true. In France, the Church was the "internal occupant"; it was an uprising. In Spain, the Church was known to be ally of fascists; we can see the consequences of failing to contain it. USSR was replacing Jesus with Stalin, himself a cleric. China - I'd love to see Western countries handling religious fundamentalism as well as they do.