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===India===
===India===
Deeply influenced by the UN's 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the [[India]]n constitution provides for a host of rights, including the right of equality, cultural and religious freedoms, and the right to education. Discrimination based on race, caste, gender, birthplace, and religion was subsequently outlawed. Yet, political and social realities have intruded. Because of India's multiplicity of religious and ethnic groups, each with their own traditions and beliefs, and the complex interplay between these groups, the principles contained in the constitution have not always been followed in practice.
Deeply influenced by the UN's 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the [[India]]n constitution provides for a host of rights, including the right of equality, cultural and religious freedoms, and the right to education. Discrimination based on race, caste, gender, birthplace, and religion was subsequently outlawed. Yet, political and social realities have intruded. Because of India's multiplicity of religious and ethnic groups, each with their own traditions and beliefs, and the complex interplay between these groups, the principles contained in the constitution have not always been followed in practice.
== God given unalienable rights contrasted with state atheism ==
'''See also:''' [[State atheism]]
Supreme Court Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] said that the can favor religion over "non-religion".<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/justice_scalia_atheists_and_mass_murder.html Justice Scalia, Atheists, and Mass Murder] by Frank R. Gunter, ''American Thinker''</ref>
Frank R. Gunter wrote in the ''American Thinker'':
{{Cquote|Why should the Constitution favor religious belief over unbelief -- [[atheism]]? History provides an answer. Many atheists are fond of reminding people that when it comes to crimes against humanity, Christianity has much to answer for including the Thirty Years War, the Inquisition, and involvement with slavery. But two out of three of the worst mass murderers in all of history were atheists and the third might best be described as pagan.
According to Rummel’s Death by Government, [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – an [[State atheism|atheist state]] -- murdered about 62 million of its own people during its 75 years of existence. Between 1948 and 1976, another explicitly atheist state, [[Mao Zedon|Mao]]’s People’s Republic of China murdered 35 million of its own people primarily through deliberate starvation...
Why might atheists value other people’s lives less?
The U.S. Declaration of Independence states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
These truths are self-evident to Christians and Jews who believe that everyone is endowed with an immortal soul; that everyone deserves to be treated as an end -- not as a means. But the basic equality of man is not self-evident to an atheist who depends only on personal observation or scientific enquiry to discover truth.
According to Rummel’s Death by Government, Stalin’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – an atheist state -- murdered about 62 million of its own people during its 75 years of existence. Between 1948 and 1976, another explicitly atheist state, Mao’s People’s Republic of China murdered 35 million of its own people primarily through deliberate starvation.<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/justice_scalia_atheists_and_mass_murder.html Justice Scalia, Atheists, and Mass Murder] by Frank R. Gunter, ''American Thinker''</ref>}}
==References==
==References==