Am I an Anarchist?

[Cherub786]

I think we agree there, anarchy is preferable to an orwellian state..or at least could be.  If the anarchists state is made up of the same actors as the orwellian state...well, lock your doors and load your rifle, man.  Remember to leave plenty for yourself and your loved ones should they surround your firing position.

IDK where you're from, so I don't know what you're being told, but the US was a country formed by a palpable distrust and pessimism of the state.  Our founding documents are basically a list of shit the government can't do, lol.  OFC, they do that shit anyway, from time to time.....and because of this, and even though we nixed the whole "right to rebellion" thing as soon as we won that rebellion....it still exists as a strong motivator in our social contract.  We fashion ourselves a nation of rebels and misfits...though, I wonder how true that is, if it ever was.

Look at all the pissy little whiners we have in government who can't handled being booed and shamed out of a restaurant.  Honestly, I -like- the fact that..in the dark of night, as they try to get some rest between bouts of fucking us raw for profit..they might worry that actual physical harm will be done to them for having done that very same.  

There is no such thing as "the irreligious masses".  That is a boogeyman of your own invention, and in order to so much as create it you included one of the largest religions in the world....lol.  Facism, meanwhile, -consistently- allies itself with the prevailing religion.  Be as cynical as you like, but it isn't exactly atheists standing in knee deep pools of blood shouting "god wills it!"..or exploding on street corners because god is just so damned great, eh?

I happen to live in Canada, my place of birth and residence for most of my life, a relatively free country. Of course I don’t consider myself a Canadian or express any loyalty to the state or the “nation”. Countries are merely territories to me, soil, rock, water and vegetation. I don’t anthropomorphize a country like a patriot or nationalist.
I have come to realize I am more anti-nationalist than I am anarchist. I can tolerate a state as long as it is very weak and limited. I guess I’m more of a libertarian then. But a stateless society has its appeal too. Let me be quite honest, I’d rather live in a place like Somalia with its roaming militias than in China with its spotless streets. You can’t put a price on freedom. The point is I absolutely hate any kind of authoritarianism. I sincerely hope North America continues to be relatively free and doesn’t go down the route of Europe or Britain.
As for atheists, to each his own, but it must be admitted that the Soviet Union and now China have been the bastions of state sponsored atheism and persecute religious groups. The concentration camps in Xiangjiang province and the condition of Uighurs and Kazakhs is an outright example of atheist persecution of a religious community right now as we approach the year 2019.
Now of course the atheists here in North America tend to be humanists or at least liberal and committed to religious liberty. But they have to acknowledge the illiberal atheists across the Atlantic and the Pacific are harming the cause of religious liberty in the name of the state.
Atheism is intrinsically prone to politically authoritarian and collectivist ideologies. That is because atheism is colorless, it doesn’t understand the human condition as religion does, particularly Semitic religions, and it is from the latter that we get concept like civil disobedience and the morality of defying the state and the law when the state or law is unjust and tyrannical.