- published: 12 May 2015
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Irreligion (adjective form: non-religious or irreligious) is the absence, indifference, or rejection of religion.
When characterized as the rejection of religious belief, it encompasses atheism, agnosticism, religious dissidence, and secular humanism. When characterized as the absence of religious belief, it may also include "spiritual but not religious", pandeism, ignosticism, nontheism, pantheism, panentheism, and freethought. When characterized as indifference to religion, it is known as apatheism.
Irreligion may include some forms of theism, depending on the religious context it is defined against; for example, in 18th-century Europe, the epitome of irreligion was deism. According to Pew Research Center projections, the nonreligious, though temporarily increasing, will ultimately decline significantly by 2050 because of lower reproductive rates and ageing.
In 1993, the UN's human rights committee declared that article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights "protects theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion or belief." The committee further stated that "the freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief necessarily entails the freedom to choose a religion or belief, including the right to replace one's current religion or belief with another or to adopt atheistic views." Signatories to the convention are barred from "the use of threat of physical force or penal sanctions to compel believers or non-believers" to recant their beliefs or convert.
hIt breathes into the forefront
Cult of lies and deceit says
Think for your own, not on your own
We die, days and nothing are gone to the plight
There they go, cover the tracks
Or risk them to their graves
What we know instates your fair game
I won't run, and I will destroy you all
Your time is done
Burning eyes
The wrath of angst under my skin
With blood, will suffocate them all
A propaganda game bent us to the will
Be certain that the rules will change
Eye of the tide
Reaches out for you
Feed the life
The toxic dreams for which you cry
Your life
Your life is running from reality
In The End
All the change will start with your genocide
Now the time, their science fiction fantasy
They have fabricated
Overcome, after the world was bought
We'll take it back and kill off what's left
This is certain
Your ways create death in this form
Pray to your mechanical savior
It's soul is sought
Seeing the funeral arise
It is certain, you've fallen from grace
You'll try to damage us while you still can