Ir.Tab.
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None. Thats what I'm trying to say. There is no 'atheism'.
"Not having beliefs in anything" could be a believe for itself!
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None. Thats what I'm trying to say. There is no 'atheism'.
"Not having belief in anything" could be a belief for itself!
Here is a map of secular nations (blue) versus nations with a state religion (red). It is interesting that almost all of the nations with a state religion are Islamic countries.
There are countries among blue colored part which their government is non-religious but they are not that free to be called as secular.
All secular means is that religion does not interfere with government. It has nothing to do with freedom or democracy.
True, in fact on the bases of the performance of some secular countries, secularism is projected as anti-religion in Iran. These two concepts ie. secularism and anti-religion-ism are not inevitably associated. That was what I tried to say on post #363 but apparently I have made a wrong statement.
The Iranians I know don't have typical Muslim names but names like Mitra, Novak and Nariman. Does it mean they have converted or just like to have Ancient Persian names?
Yes. There are some countries which I would classify as both "secular" and "anti-religion". For example France with the headscarf (hejab) ban, which I do not believe is right. France took a problem they have, which is too much immigration, and dealt with it using the wrong solution.
Ir.Tab. what do you think will be future of Iran? Are you hopeful for secularism?
Also you say you want language rights. What type of solution do you think people of Azarbayjan want? Do you want language rights in your own provinces, or on a national level?
The thing is that Iran has to reform politically, religiously and economically, or otherwise a lot of long-term damage would be caused.
1) Politically: this situation can't continue anymore. A large portion of Iran's society - moderates, reformists and secularists - are excluded from the political arena, while hardliners and conservatives are dominating every aspect of Iran's society. You simply can't exclude such significant portion of a society. There is no unity anymore, and if they don't reform, it could led to more schism.
2) Religiously: the most damage has been done to the religion itself. Islam, even if most Iranians still hold on to it, has been destroyed in Iran. The regimes links to link every decision they make to Islam, which has resulted in Iranians blaming everything on Islam. There are a lot of mullahs who are seeing this too, and therefore argue that secularism is not only a solution to protect the rights of minorities, but is also a way to 'save' religion in Iran.
3) Economically: face it. Our economy has been destroyed. We are excluded from world's market, and that will stay if we continue on this path, and don't give in to some demands of the west, even if that's unfair. We could develop economically, but not with this current condition.
Apparently regime counts on the fact that nation will never enters a harsh response and they have closed every path that leads to a soft change. Dangerous solution, isn't it? On both possible occasion it will cost a lot for the nation, unfortunately.
The semi middle ages in information age you mean. There are still lots of religious people in Iran, That is why I try to find a solution not violating personal life of people. Otherwise it wont be popular in Iran.
Apparently we will continue until we launch a human to the space! What will happen next I have no idea!
........................................... how is the advancements Iran makes in the space program or in its BM program related to the economy ? ................Yes! Launching monkeys to space and firing missiles! Regime's solution to all our problems.