USA Promotes “Religious Freedom” of Atheists

Religious Freedom Is Discarded. The U.S. diplomacy is abandoning religious freedom, Thomas Farr wrote on The Wall Street Journal in early August. Farr is president of the Religious Freedom Institute and served as director of the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2003. According to the prevailing ideology, religious practice is now increasingly considered intolerable, Farr writes.

Dangerous. Religious people who refuse abortion, destroying marriage, making up genders are cast as – quote – “dangerous to democracy.” For Farr, it is troubling that such calls often come from the government, whose duty would be to defend religious rights. He refers to the Equality Act—pending in Congress and supported by the Biden regime — which wants to bar religious exemptions and subject critics of secular ideology to ruinous lawsuits.

Undermined. The US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom has struggled to integrate himself within the US state department’s foreign policy since its founding. Biden has undermined his office’s operating premises. For instance, the US Foreign minister Blinken declared that – quote – “there is no hierarchy that makes some rights more important than others.” The implication of this is that regimes can make up “rights” they favour and simply say that they are “universal.”

Inventing Rights. The US regime has declared that an alleged “right” to abortion and alleged homosex “rights” are “at the heart of our foreign policy.” Countries that fail to recognize them lose U.S. support. In 2021, the State Department offered $500,000 in grants to promote the – quote - “religious freedom” of – quote - “atheist, humanist, non-practicing and non-affiliated individuals.” Thus, according to the regime, atheists constitute “religion.”