This is the essay we prepared for Humanist Global Charity & Peace. Burma, the former name of a country with its present name as Myanmar, is a multi-cultural country with…
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Burmese Atheists Association Posts
We are proud to announce that our application to become an affiliated organization of International Association of Atheists has been approved. Our membership started on February 1st of 2020. It wouldn’t…
We are proud to announce that our application to become an affiliated organization of Atheist Alliance International has been approved. Our membership started on January 1st of 2020. It wouldn’t…
We consider this coup as a serious blow to democracy. We strongly believe that such kind of coup will not lead the public and the economy towards a prosperous condition.…
We are proud to announce that our application to become the first affiliated organization of Humanists International in Myanmar. It wouldn’t happen without the support of our fellow atheists. Thanks…
As far as we know, there’s been a huge political conflict between the Western socialists and new atheism horsemen like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and so on.…
There are loads of Human Rights violations in the name of blasphemy in Myanmar. Some people were sentenced behind bars just for decorating with Buddha statues. Some scholars were suppressed and sentence behind bars simply because they don’t follow the conventional ways of thinking over the religious scriptures.
Long before the current atheism, Myanmar has its own scholars and free thinkers who tried to challenge the religious fundamentalism. They tried to challenge the patriarchal system among the religions inside Myanmar such as Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. Some of them were Shin Ukkahta, Ashin Addiccavamsa, Dhammavihari Shin Nyarna, and Saccavadi (Kyaw, 2020).
Shin Ukkahta was an unorthodox Buddhist scholar whose beliefs and criticisms are really similar to Stephen Batchelor of our time. But as a result, he was sentenced into jail several times for his unorthodox views. Moreover, some of his books and his recordings were censored since todays. Those who tend to republish or re-distribute are also exposed to danger to be sentenced under the religious act of Blasphemy and others religious acts.