Atheism and Human Rights Abuses in Africa

Today around the globe too many atrocities are being committed with impunity in the name of god, allah and other constructs, which have over the ages, been identified or associated with the so called supreme being. The dream of a secular peaceful world where people of all faiths and none can coexist in harmony - continues to elude many across the region. Millions of people- theists and atheists- continue to suffer and are abused due to superstition, religious fundamentalism and supernaturalism. In this piece I will focus on two of such areas.

Leo,
you probably know the following:
the overwhelming majority of whites only care about whites, their own families, plus friends. Africa means very little to them.
It isn’t hate as it was in the past—today it’s indifference, as Moynihan may have termed it, “benign neglect”. There is some ecumenicism, however the Darwinist aspect rules; whites are primarily concerned with their pedigrees in pursuit of their legacies.
This has to be discussed or we are shall we say spinning a prayer wheel and nothing more.

I don’t think it even has to do with race, but merely the fact that those in the developed world simply don’t care about developments in Africa (and other places they deem marginal or insignificant)  because they don’t feel they will affect them personally. For instance, many Americans very much care about what happens in China.

To keep it brief,
let’s take Obama as an example: his enemies treat him worse than they did Clinton (and that is saying something); you don’t think it might have something  to do with Obama being an ‘exotic’? nothing at all? but again, it isn’t hate, as it was in the days of the Klan and ‘cuffies’; it’s indifference, “benign” neglect.

Obama’s race is an easily-exploitable factor in motivating the mouth-breathers that are the GOP’s target demographic. The fact that they exploit it is not surprising.

That’s not very good, is it?,
that otherwise decent (whatever their flaws, the GOP aren’t skinhead-types) would stoop so low in the ‘greatest country in the world’. Leads me to believe although caucasians might not dislike blacks in Africa and elsewhere, blacks are not exactly cherished.

Your proposal really strikes a chord. Your views express much of the reason why I became assertive about atheism. Without reading your piece, I might never have been able to articulate that fact. We really do need to speak out everywhere on the human rights of atheists

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