Which countries offer the most personal/social freedoms?

[majoun]

Originally Posted by LuckyGem

Yeah.

That would be the United States.

We have religious freedom here.

It's the law.

The US does not have the highest percentage of atheists of any country in the world nor is atheism truly accepted in the US.

Note that the US has never had an atheist president and had only one agnostic president although it had several deist presidents. And it has not had a president who was not a Christian since 1912. Meanwhile, Australia's current PM is an atheist and three former British Prime Ministers were atheists.

Many polls indicate that America would accept a Muslim president before it would accept an atheist president.

Sorry, fail.

[Kirdik]

Originally Posted by majoun

In general, the countries with the most atheists have the most personal freedom.

Are you sure about that? In the Soviet Union a large majority of people were atheists.

[AuDiBelle]

Originally Posted by EinsteinsGhost

Among the countries I've visited... India.

India ranks 124 out of 183 nations measured for business, trade, fiscal, economic, government, monetary, investment, financial, labor freedoms, property rights, and freedom from corruption. Doesn't sound too free to me, but I've never been there.
India information on economic freedom | Facts, data, analysis, charts and more

[LuckyGem]

Originally Posted by majoun

Austria has a pretty large socialist party and has had socialist chancellors, so this is inaccurate.

Wrong. There are several parties in Austria but none called the "Socialist" Party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ies_in_Austria

And Scientology is illegal in Germany.

I believe all names have to be in the German language, as in Argentina all names have to be in the Spanish language. I'd think you'd approve of this. Don't you always complain about immigrants not fitting in and multiculturalism?

Wrong. German First Names and Official Approval - Das Standesamt

Not allowed to name your child Lucifer in New Zealand either.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_906171.html

It's all pretty silly to me. Name your kid what you want - he can always change it later.

http://www.listmyfive.com/3885c1eb/T...from-Countries

Poverty. Of course if you had your way they'd all be deported.

Wrong. Only the illegal ones.

Bottom line is - we still have more freedom in the USA

[majoun]

Originally Posted by LuckyGem

Wrong. There are several parties in Austria but none called the "Socialist" Party.

List of political parties in Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And Scientology is illegal in Germany.

Good for Germany (and France, too).
Scientology is no more a religion than the Crips, Bloods, or MS13 are religions.
Those books I was referring to earlier in the thread about Hubbard are anti-Scientology and reveal him to be a racist, pedophile, and murderer.

The socialist party in Austria (SDP) is in power right now. They aren't banned.

[sanspeur]

It's gotta be Canada...

A small but important difference below.