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The International Humanist and Ethical Union has completed a study suggesting atheists and non-believers suffer greatly in this present darkness<\/a>. I have no doubt they are persecuted. \u00a0Just like many of the countries mentioned that will persecute atheists will persecute religious believers of other traditions. \u00a0Oh yeah. \u00a0The study\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0seem to mention that. \u00a0 Likewise absent is the country with the largest population of atheists in the world: China. \u00a0Some atheists, who are often quick to absorb any manner of non-traditional\u00a0belief system into the fold of \u2018atheism\u2019, suddenly\u00a0point\u00a0out that many Chinese are actually agnostic, and that only the government officially endorses atheism. \u00a0Whatever difference it makes to those persecuted because of\u00a0their\u00a0religious beliefs, I don\u2019t know. All in all, the typical word drool of modern atheism, where nothing is real, and no facts are worth getting hung about. \u00a0For a perspective of sweat and innocent atheists who only want to give peace a chance, Mark Shea has an amusing \u2013 and quite accurate \u2013 rebuttal<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"