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Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 22, 2015 at 11:00 pm
I recently joined a facebook group that seeks to create an independent, sovereign nation where no religion would be tolerated. Obviously, we're still in the planning stages as no such nation exsists. This got me thinking, If our little thought experiment ever got up off the ground, would anyone be willing to move there?
Think carefully now, moving is a traumatic experience and you would in fact have to renounce your citizenship to the nation you currently live in. You may also have to leave behind friends and family, stable income, or even a comfortable standard of living. Also, this is assuming things don't go "Galt's Gulch" and we destroy ourselves. You would literally have to build your livelihood from the ground up.
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RE: Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 22, 2015 at 11:37 pm
I'm trying to create a benevolent dictatorship called Beccovia.
For some reason I can't get many volunteers.
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RE: Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 22, 2015 at 11:49 pm
A nation with no Christian chicks? Haha good luck with that.
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RE: Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 22, 2015 at 11:54 pm
Simply: No.
Freedom of thought, speech, and expression are too important.
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RE: Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 23, 2015 at 12:02 am
I would not, any more than I would voluntarily live in a theocracy.
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RE: Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 23, 2015 at 1:29 am
No, of course not. Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of civilization and such a society wouldn't have it.
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RE: Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 23, 2015 at 1:31 am
Erm, no? What a horrible thought.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 23, 2015 at 1:35 am
Atheism is using freedom of speech to wrench away the moral high ground from religious groups and doing so very successfully. In the United States Atheists have largely been on the right side of the freedom of speech issue and Christians have some frightening tendencies against it. I worry at a reversal of that trend for the Atheists.
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RE: Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 23, 2015 at 1:58 am
I'm guessing all of you in this group are very young. It's an absolutely idiotic idea for the reasons CapnAwesome has pointed out.
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RE: Would you move to an Atheist nation?
December 23, 2015 at 2:05 am
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2015 at 2:06 am by robvalue.)
No. Freedom of ideas and expression are things I value highly. I'm all for reducing the harm religion can cause and removing it's special treatment, though.
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