Living on the edge: being an atheist in Italy and around the World
Are you a non-religious? Well, Italy doesn’t fit you.
Sure in Italy you are not in danger as you would be in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Mauritania, where atheists can be sentenced to death, but actually you can feel a little safer only compared to what you’d feel in Sri Lanka and a few other Countries. And that’s beyond question.
Freedom of Thought Report 2018, in fact, ranked Italy only one hundred fifty-ninth out of 196 Countries. We are the lower ranked European country about protection of the rights of the non-believers.
The seventh annual edition of the Report has already been presented at the Chamber of Deputies by the UAAR, The Union of Rationalist Atheist and Agnostics, Unione degli Atei e degli Agnostici Razionalisti, an IHEU Member Organization. Being IHEU, International Humanist and Ethical Union, a not-for-profit organization that defends human rights and promotes Humanist values world-wide, and, moreover, the publisher of the Report...