How does religion interfere with an atheist's rights???????

Answer 1

Most of the answers on here do not fit the question. The issues of gay marriage and abortion are not good examples of a struggle between religion and atheism. All religions do not oppose those issues, nor do all atheists support them. Granted our laws do resemble some of the laws found in the Bible, but not all of them. For instance it is against the law to murder someone. It is not against the law to do business on the Sabbath. It is not a sound argument to say it is because of "Christians" that we have laws that interfere with those who would do whatever they please with no regard for anyone else. That is another problem with a lot of the answers, they immediately refer to Christianity as if it were the only religion being practiced in this country. It seems to be very convenient for so many people who love to blast religion to forget that the Civil Rights movement was as much as anything else a religious movement. Martin Luther King was a Minister. He "preached" for social justice. He used the Bible as a reference for his text. To simply discount all religion as something that only has negative impact on our society and people's freedom is to ignore all of the evidence to the contrary. Being an atheist requires faith also. If I were to base my conception of atheism on the answers I have found here I would also be forced to believe that atheism requires a complete ignorance or disregard for all tangible evidence of the good brought about by religion.

Answer 2

It interferes as you are made to swear on the bible! As an atheist I dont believe in god or the bible so I shouldnt have to swear on it.

Im an atheist in a same sex relationship and religion is controlling my rights to marry my partner. Religion has nothing to do with marriage, the last time I checked, LOVE is what marriage is about, and wanting to spend the rest of your life with the person you love.. I dont see how religion comes into that! So yeah.. I would say that religion interferes with my rights everyday!

It is amazing that the world can be so stupid and base so many things on something that not everyone believes!

Answer 3

It does not interfere YET - at least not in this country. When religious zealots seek to legislate their religion into civil law and succeed then we will indeed have a big problem. So far they have not gotten their way, excepting the marriage laws passed in many states. It's sort of funny that they don't realize they have just laid down the perfect pathway to the USSC having to decide the issue of same-sex marriage based on the fact that we don't vote on civil rights in this country. The Supremes won't be using their bibles to make their decision, but the US Constitution, which spells doom for those laws. I'm sure others can and will think of other examples on this question.

Answer 4

Atheism IS a religion. It is the religious belief that there is no God. From the prefix "a-" meaning none or without, the root "theos" meaning god, and the suffix "-ism" meaning belief in, or a system based on the belief in, the root (eg Mormonism, judaism, humanism, liberalism, etc.). The absence of any religious belief is not atheism, it is irreligiousness.

The whole thing about any religion, is that it is based on BELIEF regarding the OBJECTIVE truth, based on one's own personal and therfore SUBJECTIVE experiences. Nobody can "prove" their religion to anyone else, you can only prove it to yourself. Atheists, Deists, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus, etc. etc. etc. all believe that they can prove to their own satisfaction that there is a god or gods matching their belief system.

Atheists can no more prove the absence of a god than those who adhere to a classical faith can prove the existence of one. It is not logically possible to prove the complete non-existence of God, because to be able to do so you would have to be able to observe and test all of existence simultaneously -- you would have to be be omnipresent and omniscient, in short you would have to be the god you are claiming does not exist!

So then, who is trampling on whose rights? Is it more of an offense to want to be able to talk about God in accordance with freedom of speech and religion, or to demand that nobody say anything about their beliefs lest they be guilty of being "intolerant"? To teach only atheistic worldviews and theories in the public schools (which are funded by everyone regardless of their beliefs and whether they and/or their children attended public or private schools) or to teach differing worldviews with equal respect?

I'd say atheists are interfering with the rights of "the religious" more than the other way around, quite frankly.

And lets not here any baloney about "the religious right is taking over America and enslaving everyone into their beliefs" -- they get one vote per person just like you do and the constitutionality of any laws "their" politicians pass can still be before the Supreme Court just like any laws "your" politicians can be. I haven't heard of the Supreme Court demanding that religious symbols MUST be displayed anywhere, or that religious views MUST be taught in any public schools recently, have you?

Answer 5

Atheists just get mad at the fact of religion that's all. They dont have less rights. I'm not trying to be a pervert, but i'd like to complement you on your beauty

Answer 6

It interferes when people such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell continue to assert that this is a Christian country and that we should have a Christian government, and millions of people support them. It intereferes when our own former president, George H. W. Bush (the older), says "I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God."

That is when it intereferes.

Answer 7

Religion interferes with Atheists rights EXACTLY THE SAME WAY that Atheism interferes with religious peoples rights. "YOUR RIGHT TO SWING YOUR ARM ENDS WHERE MY NOSE BEGINS"

Answer 8

These days it seems atheists have no rights. Nothing really to add to what's been said above. The list goes on--no gay marriage, no abortion, no right to walk naked in the street, no right to tell religious nuts to shut the f u c k up. Do you need more?

Answer 9

I honestly don't see how.

Its not religion that interferes with laws and rights anymore. Its money and the bill maker's agenda.

There is a reason, for example, they won't let us have the over-the-counter morning after pill.

Is it because their religious, or is it because Government officials who invest MILLIONS in pharmaceutical companies don't want that money-making pill to go on the counter because then they can't make money off of it. Pharmaceutical stocks rise while over-the-counter stocks stay the same....

MONEY RUNS AMERICA! NOT CHRISTIANITY!

Answer 10

It doesn't, that is the whole point of being an atheist, for me it is more about getting the church out of the picture than anything else.