Am I an Anarchist?

[Cherub786]

Another aspect of my political philosophy is that I do not think it is ethical to join the armed forces, police, or any agency of the government. Of course, the agencies of the government that are not coercive or employ violence, like postal workers, teachers, clerks, etc., are not at the same level of as being a member of the armed forces and police. Being a tool for the state to maintain its coercive control over society is unethical in my humble opinion.

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Do you hate authoritarianism, or do you simply hate authority?

I hate authoritarianism


The Constitution of the People's Republic of China guarantees "freedom of religion."  The reasons behind the situation in China are complex, but it has little if anything to do with atheism and state atheism.

The Constitution is meaningless in a 1 party state that does what it wants to. There is absolutely no freedom of religion in China. Religions have to be pre-approved by the Communist regime. Religious institutions are controlled by the state. Even Catholic bishops are appointed by the regime not by the Vatican. Muslims are forced to eat pork and drink beer in concentration camps. There are 1 million Muslims in the camps. Muslims are not allowed to have Islamic names, Muslim women not allowed to cover their head, Muslim males not allowed to grow beards, Muslim children not allowed to enter mosques. This is a straight up Orwellian state.

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I'm going to leave your comment about atheism being colorless alone, as it's not particularly relevant and seems to do nothing more than express a prejudice.  Atheism is not intrinsically prone to politically authoritarian and collectivist ideologies.  Atheism is not a political system or worldview.  It's possible that atheists themselves are prone to politically authoritarian and collectivist ideologies, but I see no obvious reason why this might be true, and lacking any actual documentation of your assertion, I'm inclined to dismiss it as ipse dixit.  It is possible that atheists are attracted to socialism and communism preferentially, but even if so, that would seem to do more with a set of common political and social values having nothing to do with their atheism, so I don't see why you even bring it up.

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Atheists are more prone to authoritarian and collectivist ideologies, especially communism, as evidence by the spread of communism in East Asia and Southeast Asia, precisely because they don't have a Religion which teaches there is a higher authority than the State. A typical non-religious atheist, like a chinese or Vietnamese peasant, is never taught such ideals. To him the State might as well be God. This is how majority of atheists are prone to authoritarian and collectivist ideologies.



In the past, when governments had less power than they do now, people were less free than they are now in the modern state.  Even today, where law and order breaks down, scores of petty warlords and other would-be kings explode like wildfire, undermining the plausibility of your Jeffersonian view that if people simply were free of authority they would be largely good.  We don't need to imagine what would happen in a lawless state.  We can see it happening today.

On what basis do you say people were less free before as compared to today?
A country where warlords and militias are running free is not always necessarily a place where people have no freedom. The US constitution was intentionally written with the idea that militias will be around. The existence of militias and warlords is an insurance policy against the potential tyranny of the State

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