Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Shame on You - King of Saudi Arabia

Eastern Germany is perhaps the least religious region in the world. Atheism is embraced by young and old, though even more so by younger Germans. One study in September 2012 was unable to find a single person under 28 who believed in a god. The popular explanation for this is the aggressive atheist policies of the German Democratic Republic. However, the atheist policies of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party of Germany only existed for the first few years. After that, the state allowed churches to have a relatively high level of autonomy. Also, the same high numbers of atheists don't exist in the other European countries that have a history of Soviet occupation, except for the Czech Republic and Estonia. Another explanation could be the secular movements during the Weimar Republic which were strongest in the states of Thuringia and Saxony. Also, it was the Protestant areas of the Eastern Bloc that tended to turn irreligious under Communist rule the most. The most atheist parts of the former Soviet bloc were usually once the most Protestant (East Germany, Estonia, and most of Latvia), and the Czech Republic is the only one that was once mainly Catholic (although having the largest Protestant share following the above three). Christianity still has a notable presence in the rest of Germany, though far less than in America. There is an atheist majority in Hamburg. Now the king of Saudi Arabia has recently declared in public that all atheists should be branded as "terrorists." In the meantime after more than 6 months since the horror of the greatest "typhoon Yolanda" disaster destroyed virtually the whole of Tacloban city in Leyte - the atheists German government are still there helping out the hundreds of thousands of Filipino victims left without food, without water, without shelter, without hospitals, without roads, etc. - but the Muslims believers from Saudi Arabia are no where there doing humanitarian work. Shame on you King of Saudi Arabia! Poch Suzara

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