Total Denial: Violations Of Freedom Of Religion

Governments try to force citizens to believe a certain way. When a person has a specific faith it often times run through many aspects of their life. Even when a government tells someone of faith to walk away from their beliefs, it is more likely that they hide their beliefs rather than turn away from them. While this happens, it sets up the citizens free will against the government which often leads to persecution. Human beings are born with free will. This is one of God’s gifts to us. When groups try to limit free will, in this case religious freedom, it goes against our human nature.

They make people believe in things aren’t real just like King Jong Un does to his population. An example in George Orwell book was that 2+2=5, Orwell stated (1949) “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows” (page 81). This shows how much the government controls you and how they can manipulate the way people think. Just like 1984, North Korea makes the citizens believe things are true when they are clearly to anybody else in the world.The government is very careful with what they let in and out of the

The country of North Korea compares rather closely to the world in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Both nations of people are very closed off from the community and the outside world. The citizens only know about what the government officials want them to know about. In North Korea everyone depends upon and worships their leader, Kim Jong Il, almost as though he is their god. They all only depend on what they classify as “we” and they rely only on that because they do not have access to anyone else or even know what it means to be an individual. In both the book and North Korea, the citizens are locked down and watched with a careful eye. Breaking the rules in Anthem would send you to the Uncharted Forest, which is very similar to what happens to those

The act of defining religion has been a contentious issue in a wide variety of situations, particularly in the United States. The US is a nation that prides itself on religious inclusivity and freedom. There are consequences to this belief and tenant. Through the social, legal and moral structures of the United States, defining religion has become imperative. In The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Winifred Sullivan outlines the legal implications of defining religion in the United States. In order for religious freedom to be protected by the American state, religion must be clearly defined. As a result, religious theory must be used to maintain some semblance of religious freedom in the United States. Likewise, Josh Dubler’s Down in

From verbal attacks to hostile feelings, attitudes and actions, Christians experience religious persecution in areas with severe religious restrictions. On average, there are 322 people killed, 214 churches or religious buildings destroyed, and 772 other forms of violence performed against Christians each month. According to The Pew Research Center, over 75% of the world's population lives in areas with severe religious restrictions. Additionally, according to the United States Department of State, people in more than sixty countries face persecution from their governments or surrounding neighbors simply because of their

In “The Worldwide Attack on Christians,” David Aikman highlighted the different forms of religious persecution suffered by Christians throughout the world. The forms of persecution ranged from political oppression to gruesome murders. Additionally, Aikman provided a list of culprits that included familiar Islamic nations but also less familiar non-Muslim regimes. Further, he examined several factors undermining the U.S. State Department’s and President Barack Obama’s obligation to thwart religious persecution happening abroad.

Criticism of the regime or the leadership in North Korea, if reported, is enough to make you and your family ‘disappear’ from society and end up in a political prison camp. It goes without saying that there is no free media inside the country. The only opinion allowed to be voiced inside the country is the regime’s. Knowing the threat that outside information poses to their propaganda and ideology, and ultimately its control over the people, the regime has invested massive resources in trying to maintain an information blockade and keep its monopoly as the only source of information and ideas to the North Korean people. It is illegal to own a tunable radio in North Korea, there is no access to the Internet (except for a few hand-picked and monitored officials), and North Korean landlines and mobile phones cannot make international calls. Organized religion is a potential threat to the regime and therefore nothing apart from token churches built as a facade of religious freedom for foreign visitors are allowed. Thousands of Buddhists and Christians have been purged and persecuted throughout the history of North Korea. People caught practicing or spreading religion in secret are punished extremely harshly, including by public execution or being sent to political prison

In the United States people are able to view politics however they please, and some other countries are the same way. One country that keeps a tight hold on its people and their beliefs is North Korea. North Korea is a communist country and some would say that they do things very different then other countries. North Korea believes very strongly in their ways of government and are very strict about their followers. Very few people try to rise against North Korea 's ways of government, but for the few who do their world 's get turned upside down. People who speak up and rise against the government usually get shipped out to brutal labor camps, also known as Gwalliso. In these camps a person can experience hard labor such as mining, logging,

People try to leave North Korea to go to democratic countries because they have no religious freedom, public executions, and collective punishments. Organized Religion in North Korea can be seen as a threat to the regime. Thousands of Christians and Buddhist people have been killed all through the history of North Korea. People who are caught studying or spreading the religion secretly are punished terribly. For example, they can be executed publicly or be

Hostility, oppression, and persecution of Christians are at an all-time high, yet it is going unnoticed globally and even in our own country America. Studies have shown by the Italian-based center for Studies on New Religions report that Christians are the most persecuted faith in the world. These heinous acts against Christians go untouched. It is important to recognize global persecution outside the United States and the effects of it in our own country. Many people will argue that right wing conservative Christians are over-reaching and being overdramatic about our Christian rights in a secular nation. The question I pose to the audience is, would this be tolerated if it were any other religion but Christianity? The rights and morals that

Their leader, Kim II- Sung and two U.S military drew a line at the 38th parallel to separate North Korea from South Korea and from that point on, North Korea became a communist nation (Pruitt 2017). Those within the homeland were restricted from traveling within their country let, alone outside of their realm. Not only gallivanting was impossible, the citizens of North Korea do not have the right to receive public health, to have religious freedom, to have freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. At all times, the public must follow the constitution or else they would face an unbearable consequence. Aside from limited rights, they did not choose their leader. Their leader claim leadership and the public were forced to accept him. Nevertheless, North Korea has a lot of similarities to the book 1984. Those include; no freedom of religion, no freedom of information, and no freedom of

There is a common belief that everyone should have their own rights and freedom towards anything in their life, under a given law and ethics. Freedom to express and to survive have become a standard of living of any human kind. Those standards are inherently planted in any human being and being passed to their inheritance. These rights, as the time passes by, have been expanded and developed into higher and more moderate levels of rights, as given that people have been always seeking for a greater freedom in their own countries and societies. This eager desire for freedom is considered human nature or some sorts, but in certain region with a certain cultures, the ideas of freedom often considered as a false conduct. It was stated that “in the face of mounting tensions between different human rights concerns some observers even assume an abstract antagonism exists between freedom of religion or belief and certain other human rights, such as freedom of expression, gender equality, or LGBTI-rights.” (Bielefeldt 3).

The words “North Korea” has almost an eerie connotation to it, there is hardly any good news that follow after those words. North Korea also known as, DPRK which stands for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a communist state under totalitarian dictatorship led by Kim Jung-Un. According to Leila Haddou, “DPRK is one of the few countries that still participates in the death penalty, but unlike North Korea, many countries and states that have the death penalty have not had any executions in the past 10 years” (“Death Penalty Statistics 2013: Country by Country”). I remember hearing the news on TV, and reading numerous articles in 2013 when Kim Jung-Un announced a “public execution of 8 people, whom were accused of watching illicit South Korean dramas or because of prostitution. The execution took place in a city called Wonsan, and 10,000 people of all ages were forced to watch as the firing squad shot at the “criminals”. Throughout the month of November, there were 80 recorded executions total due to possession of the Bible, watching South Korean dramas, porn, and for prostitution” (Presse “North Korea ‘Publicly Executed 80 People’”). As a Korean and a Christian, when I hear devastating news like this it makes me question why and how Americans and everyone else in the world can continue to live their lives as if nothing else is going wrong in the world. The most prominent answer would be that it is because it’s not affecting Americans directly.

The persecution of Christians is a specific example that occurs constantly in our society. They are focused on more than some other group of devotees. Between a half and 66% of Christians in the Middle East have withdrawn or been executed over the previous century.Each month's statistics show that about 300 Christians are persecuted for what they believe in. They are the most persecuted group in the world for the second year. According to activists, the Christian population in Iraq alone can be deceased soon due to the

The way of life in Korean culture is fundamentally based on the Confucian thought. In North Korea, it is said that they allow freedom of religion, however, they do not practice it. A belief they have gone by nowadays is based on the cult personality of Kim Il Sung. Through the education system, he and his family are the role models of the whole North Korea.