*Higgins, David (June 22, 2007). [https://web.archive.org/web/20071008035420/http://www.sarasotamagazine.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=365 "Memory and ideology: Washington's newest statue is the Victims Of Communism Memorial"]. Sarasota Magazine website. Retrieved from October 8, 2007 archive at Internet Archive on May 22, 2015.
*Radosh, Ronald (February 2000). [http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2526 "''The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression''"]. First Things [journal] website. Retrieved July 19, 2014.</ref> See: [[Atheism and communism]] ]]
[[Human rights]] are the basic [[rights]] and [[freedom]]s to which all humans are entitled, entirely by virtue of their status as human beings(see: [[Atheism and human worth]]).
Below are some resources relating to notable instances of '''atheism and human rights violations'''.
== Atheism and mass murder ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and Mass Murder|Atheism and mass murder]] and [[Atheist atrocities]] and [[Atheism and sociopathy#Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders|Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders]]
[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[Joseph Stalin]]'s atheistic regime killed tens of millions of people.]]
It is estimated that in the past 100 years, governments under the banner of atheistic [[communism]] have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 and 259,432,000 human lives.<ref name=blackbook/> Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the range of computations of loss of life due to communism is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>Rummel, R. J. (November 1993). [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM "How many did communist regimes murder?"] University of Hawaii website; Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War. Retrieved July 19, 2014.</ref>
[[File:Vox Day.jpg|thumbnail|right|160px|[[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] ]]
[[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] notes concerning atheism and mass murder:
{{cquote|Apparently it was just an amazing coincidence that every Communist of historical note publicly declared his atheism … .there have been twenty-eight countries in world history that can be confirmed to have been ruled by regimes with avowed atheists at the helm … These twenty-eight historical regimes have been ruled by eighty-nine atheists, of whom more than half have engaged in democidal acts of the sort committed by [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] …
Is a 58 percent chance that an atheist leader will murder a noticeable percentage of the population over which he rules sufficient evidence that atheism does, in fact, provide a systematic influence to do bad things? If that is not deemed to be conclusive, how about the fact that the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one-twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them. If one considers the statistically significant size of the historical atheist set and contrasts it with the fact that not one in a thousand religious leaders have committed similarly large-scale atrocities, it is impossible to conclude otherwise, even if we do not yet understand exactly why this should be the case. Once might be an accident, even twice could be coincidence, but fifty-two incidents in ninety years reeks of causation!<ref>Multiple references:
*[[Vox Day]] (Theodore Beale) (2008). ''The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens'' (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books), p. 17.
*Ammi, Ken (June 11, 2009). [https://creation.com/atheism#atheism-communism "Atheism [quoting Vox Day]"]. Creation Ministries International website. Retrieved on July 19, 2014.</ref>}}
:"It is wonderful that, amid the horrors of this dismal period, while 'the death dance of democratic revolution' was still in rapid movement, among the tears of affliction, and the cries of despair, 'the masque, the song, the theatric scene, the buffoon laughter, went on as regularly as in the gay hour of festive peace.'|pages=105–6|accessdate = July 18, 2014}}<!-- Reign of Terror -->
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*{{cite book no ws|title=Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West|first=William|last=Kilpatrick|location=San Francisco, CA|publisher=Ignatius Press|year=2012|url=https://books.google.com?id=Tt5rqiCP1p8C&pg=PA57&dq=Reign+of+Terror+atheism&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HoRUUcD0NeXX0gGNo4HIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Reign%20of%20Terror%20atheism&f=false|quote=Actually, it's helpful to think in terms of two Enlightenments: the Enlightenment that was nourished by Christianity and the Enlightenment that cut itself off from God. The former led to the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the abolition of slavery, and the civil rights movement. The latter led to the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror, the suppression of church by state, and the godless philosophies of Marx and Nietzsche and their offspring—National Socialism and communism. More recently the abandonment of God has led to the regime of cultural relativism that regards rights as arbitrary constructs.
:"It's this second Enlightenment tradition that Cardinal Ratzinger referred to when he wrote, 'The radical detachment of the Enlightenment philosophy from its roots ultimately leads it to dispense with man.' Actually this transition happened not 'ultimately' but almost immediately. The first instance occurred when Enlightenment worship of abstract 'reason' and 'liberty' degenerated quickly into the mass murders committed during the antireligious Reign of Terror in France. 'Liberty, what crimes are committed in your name', said Madame Roland as she faced the statue of Liberty in the Place de la Revolution moments before her death at the guillotine. She was one of the early victims of a succession of secular systems based on rootless notions of 'liberty', 'equality', and 'reason'.
:"As many historians have pointed out, the atheist regimes of modern times are guilty of far more crimes than any committed in the name of religion. Communist governments alone were guilty of more than one hundred million murders, most of them committed against their own people.|pages=p. 57|accessdate = July 18, 2014}}</ref>
Although Communism is one of the most well-known cases of atheism's ties to mass murder, the French Revolution and subsequent Reign of Terror, inspired by the works of [[Denis Diderot|Diderot]], [[Voltaire]], [[Marquis de Sade|Sade]], and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]], managed to commit similar persecutions and exterminations of religious people and promote secularism and militant atheism. Official numbers indicate that 300,000 Frenchmen died during [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespierre]]'s Reign of Terror, 297,000 of which were of middle-class or low-class.<ref name="A Primer of the Illuminati">McIlheny, William H. (June 12, 2009). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4660-a-primer-on-the-illuminati "A primer on the Illuminati"]. The New American website. Retrieved on May 22, 2015.</ref> Of the numbers murdered via the guillotine, only 8% had been of the aristocratic class, with over 30% being from the peasant class.<ref name="Operation Parricide">von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik (October 1989). [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20050309031846/https://culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html "Operation Parricide: Sade, Robespierre & the French Revolution"]. ''Fidelity'' magazine. Retrieved from Culture Wars website on May 22, 2015.</ref>
One of the most well known cases of mass murder during the French Revolution was the [[Vendée rebellion|genocide at Vendée]], which has yet to be officially recognized as genocide. Some estimates indicated that Robespierre and the [[Jacobins]] planned to massacre well over 15,000,000 Frenchmen,<ref name="A Primer of the Illuminati"/> and that he also intended to commit genocide against the Alsace region of France due to their German-speaking populace.<ref name="Operation Parricide"/> Besides the guillotine, the French Revolution also resulted in various other deaths, including trampling children with horses, burning people in ovens, "Republican Marriages" (which involved stripping people naked, tying them together to a log in a suggestive fashion, and then putting them into the water to drown. In the event that there wasn't enough people of both sexes, they also resorted to "tying the knot" in a homosexual manner), cutting recently raped girls in half after tying them to a tree, crushing pregnant women under wine pressers, cutting up pregnant women and using bayonets to stab the fetus inside before leaving her to die, "catching" infants thrown from a balcony with their bayonets, and using shotguns to ensure people bled out to death.<ref name="Operation Parricide"/>
[[File:Martyred in the USSR Poster.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The above photograph shows the Russian Nikolai Khmara, a new Baptist convert in the [[Soviet Union]], after his arrest by the [[KGB]]. He was tortured to death and his tongue cut out.<ref>Double references:
*Gonzales, Kevin (January 29, 2013 or bef.). [http://martyredintheussr.com/ "Martyred in the USSR Militant Atheism in the former Soviet Union, Russian Orthodox church, religious persecution, atheist"] Martyred in the USSR website. See [[Martyred in the USSR: Militant Atheism in the former Soviet Union]].
*Hoover, Peter with Petrov, Serguei V. (2005). [http://www.anabaptists.org/books/russians/trs-1.html "Anabaptists: The Russians' Secret -- Speaking without a Tongue".] ''The Russians' Secret: What Christians Today Would Survive Persecution?'' Anabaptists.org website/books/Russians (Shippensburg, PA: Benchmark Press, 1999), ch. 1, pp. 1-3.</ref>]]
In the atheistic [[communism|communist]] regime of the [[Soviet Union]], torture was frequently employed to extract false confessions which were subsequently used to establish that individuals were "enemies of the people" - particularly under the [[Militant atheism|militant atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]]'s regime.<ref>[[Alexander Solzhenitsyn|Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr]](1973). "''[[The Gulag Archipelago"]], 1918-1956'', trans. Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willetts (New York: Harper & Row, 1985).</ref>
In the Soviet Union, many [[Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox]] priests and laymen experienced religious persecution in the form of torture and being sent to prison camps, [[Atheism and forced labor|labor camps]] or mental hospitals.<ref name="ReferenceA">Multiple references:*Father Arseny 1893-1973 Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father. Introduction pg. vi - 1. St Vladimir's Seminary Press ISBN 0-88141-180-9</ref><ref name="lalex">*Alexeyeva, Lyudmila (1984). [http://old.memo.ru/history/diss/books/alexeewa/index.htm ''History of Dissident Movement in the USSR'' [Russian language]] (Benson VT: Khronika Press). Reprinted at Memorial (society) [archival] website.</ref><ref name="gins">*Ginzburg, Alexander (November 2000). [http://www.index.org.ru/journal/11/ginzburg.html "Record of censorship/Only one year - 1976".] ''Index'' [Russian Language], republished at ''Index'' magazine website/Ginzburg.</ref><ref name="washingtonpost.com">*Sullivan, Patricia (November 26, 2006). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/25/ "Anti-Communist priest Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa".] ''The Washington Post'' website (Washington D.C.: unknown publisher), p. C09</ref>
=== Atheistic, Chinese communism and torture ===
According to a 2012 Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International Association (WIN/GIA) poll, 47% of Chinese people were convinced atheists, and a further 30% were not religious. In comparison, only 14% considered themselves to be religious.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130524174009/http://www.winmr.com/web/files/news/14/file/14.pdf ''Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism''] (July 27, 2012). PDF file (Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International), p. 3. Republished at ''Worldwide Independent Network of Market Research and Opinion Poll'' website. Archived at ''Internet Archive'' website on May 24, 2013.</ref> See: [[China and atheism]]
The Chinese communist regime has used beatings, harassment and torture to suppress religion in China and continues to use these practices.<ref name="Amnesty1">Multiple references:
{{cquote|More than 200,000 North Koreans, including children, are imprisoned in camps where many perish from forced labor, inadequate food, and abuse by guards, according to [[Human Rights Watch]]. The isolated, secretive nation has no media, functioning civil society, or religious freedom, and pervasive problems include arbitrary arrest, lack of due process, and torture.<ref>Koonse, Emma (May 6, 2015). [http://www.christianpost.com/news/north-korean-defector-who-spent-28-years-in-prison-camp-details-starvation-torture-and-cannibalism-in-the-dprk-138746/ "North Korean defector who spent 28 years in prison camp details hunger, torture, and cannibalism in the DPRK"]. The Christian Post website/CP World.</ref>}}
== Atheistic China, political prisoners Atheism and slavery/forced labor in prisons ==
'''See also: ''' [[Atheism and repressive prisonsslavery]] and [[Atheism and forced labor]] and [[Atheism and communism]]
[[File:Flag of the PRC.png|thumbnail|200px|left|According to China]], [[CNNNorth Korea]], hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of labor camps and forced labor prisons (called laogai) still exist in modern [[ChinaVietnam]].<ref>{{cite web|url=httpspractice [[state atheism]] (see://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/red.giant/prisons/wu.essay/ |title=Labor camps reinforce China's totalitarian rule |publisher=Cnn.com |date=1984-10-09 |accessdate=2013-03-20}}</ref>[[State atheism]]).
Most atheists are According to the Global Slavery index website: "The Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were over 3.8 million people living in conditions of modern slavery in China, a prevalence of 2.8 victims for every thousand people in the country. This estimate does not include figures on organ trafficking."<ref>[https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/country-studies/china/ China - prevalence of slavery]</ref> According to the Global Slavery Index website: "The newly released 2018 Global Slavery Index names North Korea and [East Asia[Eritrea]]ns as the two nations with the world’s highest rates of modern slavery, emphasizing how conflict and government repression contribute to the crime.<ref>[https://www.freedomunited.org/news/2018-global-slavery-index-north-korea-worlds-worst-offender/ 2018 Global Slavery Index: North Korea World's Worst Offender]</ref> In 2019, the website Global Slavery Index estimated that there are 421,000 slaves in Vietnam.<ref>[https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/regional-analysis/asia-and-the-pacific/ Global Slavery Index = Asia and the Pacific]</ref> Due to political repression, government corruption and the persecution of the religious, a portion of the individuals in China, North Korea and Vietnam, are under government run forced labor (see: [[Asian atheismAtheism and forced labor]]). For more information, please see: *[[Atheism and slavery]] *[[Atheism and forced labor]] === Atheistic China, political prisoners and forced labor in prisons === See also: [[Atheism and repressive prisons]] and [[Atheism and forced labor]] and [[Atheism and communism]] [[File:Flag of the PRC.png|thumbnail|200px|right|According to [[CNN]], hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of labor camps and forced labor prisons (called laogai) still exist in modern [[China]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/red.giant/prisons/wu.essay/ |title=Labor camps reinforce China's totalitarian rule |publisher=Cnn.com |date=1984-10-09 |accessdate=2013-03-20}}</ref>]]
[[China]] has the world's largest [[atheism|atheist]] population.<ref>Double references:
*[http://www.thechapmans.nl/news/Atheist.pdf "Top 20 Countries With Largest Numbers of Atheists / Agnostics (Zuckerman, 2005)"] (November 28, 2007). ''The Largest Atheist/Agnostic Populations''. Chris & Terri Chapman website (March 19, 2013 or bef.), first publication date at website from archive at Internet Archive.
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/23/a-surprising-map-of-where-the-worlds-atheists-live/ A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live], ''Washington Post'' By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey May 23, 2013</ref>See: [[China and atheism]] [[East Asia]] contains about 25 percent of the world’s population. China’s population represents 20 percent of the people on earth.<ref>[http://www.sbts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/10/Pages-from-SBJT-V15-N2_Terry.pdf The Growth of Christianity in East Asia]</ref> Razib Khan points out in ''Discover'' magazine, "most [[secular]] nations in the world are those of East Asia, in particular what are often termed “[[Confucianism|Confucian]] societies.” It is likely therefore that the majority of the world’s [[Atheism|atheists]] are actually East Asian."<ref>[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/11/most-atheists-are-not-white/ Most atheists are not white & other non-fairy tales], Discover magazine</ref> See: [[Asian atheism]] and [[Global atheism]]
In 1955, [[China|Chinese]] [[communism|communist]] leader Zhou Enlai declared, "We Communists are atheists".<ref>Noebel, David, The Battle for Truth, Harvest House, 2001.</ref> In 2014, the Communist Party of China reaffirmed that members of their party must be atheists.<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/19567-china-s-communist-party-reaffirms-marxism-maoism-atheism China’s Communist Party Reaffirms Marxism, Maoism, Atheism], ''New American'', 2014
*[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/china-communist-party-atheism-zhejiang-ban-religious-members-christianity_n_6599722.html China's Communist Party Bans Believers, Doubles Down On Atheism]</ref> See: [[Atheism and communism]]
In 2016, the ''International Business Times'' reported:
*[[Atheism and repressive prisons]]
*[[Atheism and forced labor]]
*[[Atheism and slavery]]
*[[Atheism and communism]]
== China and involuntary organ harvesting of prisoners ==
Several researchers — for example, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas, former Canadian parliamentarian David Kilgour, and the investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann estimate that tens of thousands of [[Falun Gong]] prisoners in [[communism|communist]] [[China]] have been killed to supply a financially lucrative trade in human organs and cadavers, and that these human rights abuses may be ongoing concern.<ref>[http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/slaughter-mass-killings-organ-harvesting Review of: Ethan Gutmann, “''The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem''”, (Prometheus Books, 2014).]</ref>
== Communist China and the consumption of powdered baby flesh ==
''See also:'' [[Atheists eat babies meme#Atheistic China and baby eating|Communist China and baby eating]] and [[Atheists eat babies meme]]
[[Image:Baby.jpg|right|thumb|250px|In 2014, ''The Washington Times'' reported: "China’s one child policy, baby trafficking, and sex trafficking of [[North Korean]] women aren’t the worst human rights violation happening in the country. [[abortion|Aborting]] innocent and healthy unborn children and eating them to boost one’s stamina and sexual health is.<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/chinese-cannibalism-infant-flesh-outrages-world/ Chinese cannibalism of infant flesh outrages the world], ''Washington Times'', 2014</ref>]]
In 2014, ''The Washington Times'' reported:
{{Cquote|China’s one child policy, baby trafficking, and sex trafficking of North Korean women aren’t the worst human rights violation happening in the country. Aborting innocent and healthy unborn children and eating them to boost one’s stamina and sexual health is.
South Korean customs officials recently seized thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh arriving from China. Since August 2011, South Korean officials have intercepted more than 17000 pills smuggled from China.
South Korean officials became aware of a horrific practice of eating aborted fetuses after Seoul Broadcasting System showed a documentary on Chinese doctors who performed abortions and then ate the fetuses. One Chinese doctor on the documentary took out fetuses from his refrigerator.<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/chinese-cannibalism-infant-flesh-outrages-world/ Chinese cannibalism of infant flesh outrages the world], ''Washington Times'', 2014</ref>}}
For additional information, please see:
*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140702/South-Korea-customs-officials-thousands-pills-filled-powdered-human-baby-flesh.html Thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh discovered by customs officials in South Korea], ''The Daily Mail'', 2012
*[https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/horrifyingly-ground-baby-pills-are-real-thing/328490/ Horrifyingly, Ground Baby Pills Are a Real Thing] by Alexander Abad-Santos, ''The Atlantic'', May 7, 2012
*[https://abcnews.go.com/Health/chinese-made-infant-flesh-capsules-seized-korea/story?id=16296176 Chinese-Made Infant Flesh Capsules Seized in S. Korea], ''ABC News'', 2012
=== Atheist controlled communist China and doctors eating aborted baby flesh ===
See: [[Atheism, Chinese doctors and baby eating]]
== Soviet Gulags, political prisoners and forced labor ==
== Christian commentary on atheism and human rights ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and human rights]] and [[Christianity and human rights]]
=== Daniel Philpott, professor of political science and peace studies at Notre Dame ===
Likewise, most of the great deniers of human and natural rights have been atheists: the philosophers [[David Hume]], [[Jeremy Bentham]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]; [[Karl Marx]] and [[Vladimir Lenin]]; and the [[Postmodernism|postmodernist]] pioneers, [[Michel Foucault]] and [[Richard Rorty]].
Just ask history’s most influential thinkers: [[God]] and human rights really do go together.<ref>Philpott, Daniel [, Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame] , (May 28, 2014). [https://www.openglobalrights.org/no-human-rights-without-god/ "No human rights without God"] Open Global Rights </ref>}}
=== Premiere Christianity website on atheism and human rights ===
*[https://www.str.org/blog/atheism-and-universal-human-rights#.XI3LnShKg2w Stand To Reason: Atheism and universal human rights]
=== Atheist Steven Pinker vs. theist Nick Spencer: Can atheists believe in human rights? ===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiv4rAompzw Atheist Steven Pinker vs. theist Nick Spencer: Can atheists believe in human rights?]
== Atheism and women's rights ==
See: [[Atheism and women's rights]]
== See also ==
*[[Atheism and its anti-civilizational effects]]
*[[Atheism and authoritarianism]]
*[[Atheism and sociopathy]]
*[[Atheism and violence]]
*[[Atheism and justice]]
*[[Atheism and morality]]
*[[Atheists and historical illiteracy]]
*[[Secular Europe and eugenics]]
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