Despite the sense that religion grows, and with it intolerance, disrespect for differences and alienation, this phenomenon is linked only to some countries, like Brazil and the United States. In many others, religion and faith are dwindling by the day, point to some statistics, indicate the total extinction in the coming years. This scenario is that it is the 1st World Congress of Atheists in Dublin, Ireland, the proposal to be the voice of atheists in the world in the fight against religious obscurantism.
In his historic meeting which began today (3 / 6) and runs through Sunday, participants in the First World Congress of Atheists will discuss issues related to atheism in the world and discuss the final approval of the Charter of Dublin, proposing that the State fails to accept the pressure of religious entities, with regard to decisions that reach the whole population. The meeting, which has 350 representatives from around the world, is chaired by biologist Richard Dawkins, one of the most outstanding fighters of religious obscurantism.
Richard Dawkins, one of the biggest names in the meeting
Interestingly, an atheist movement can now act and require certain attitudes of governments who are governed by religious influence. Especially in the case of Brazil. The world is experiencing a resurgence of fundamentalist attitudes, including in the West, despite the apparent decline of faith in many other regions.
The average Brazilian citizen training is a poor, mostly clinging to superstition and mysticism, and is therefore vulnerable to easy solutions such as "bring the woman he loves in three days" or "if you're desperate, debt, deep in the well accepted Jesus and everything will improve. " So is that political leaders, both here in the U.S., take advantage of the extreme religiosity of the people, throwing fibs like "we are a Christian country, why can not we have anti-homophobia kit, or abortion, or gay marriage," interfering in absolutely secular affairs. Secular state, for them, is an abstraction difficult to understand.
Thus, this atheist manifesto comes at great time at the moment in which evangelical pastors and conservative political demagogues increasingly attempt to interfere in state affairs. In this convention will be released the Atheist Alliance International ( Atheist Alliance International ) in order to represent atheists around the world, spreading their ideas and proposals for a world increasingly free from superstition, war, brutality and religious irrationalities.
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