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Originally Posted by shakespear
Pakistan has become conservative and intolerant society in recent decades.In past,we have many bureacrates who were not religious and even some were openly atheist.Foreign minister of Pakistan in 1962, Mr. Abdul Qadir was self-declared atheist.Alchol was banned in 1974.
Religion is personal matter.It has and should nothing to do with job.In CSS,you are dealing with highly educated panel.so it will not make a difference here that whether you are an atheist or mullah.But if you said something about your views in public they might not understand you and probably kill you.The case of Mashal khan is classic example.
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Religion is a personal thing, I agree. But, in principle, no atheist should be tolerated in the state service of an ideological state like ours. A person who doesn't associate her/himself with the ideology of a state in the first place, would s/he be able to implement/supervise the policies coming from it? A faithless person is a miserable person! Hope is the gift of faith and if the dictum 'hope sustains life' be our guide, a faithless person is already dead. States don't hire dead people. Pertaining to the intolerance part of your text, I would like to shed some light on it: 1. We all know that alcoholic beverages are in vogue in our bureaucratic and
other high ranking officials' circles. Politicians too enjoy this privilege irrespective of the fact that it's a contraband. 2. Majority of the lot of the atheist/agnostic bureaucrats start as a common (religious) persons, but upon the enjoyment of discretion in their spheres of jobs, they start forgetting about their true status and start following the fashion (of showing off as liberals in conformity with the advanced world). Remember what Montesquieu says: when a person forgets her/his own self, moral laws comes to her/his rescue. When s/he forgets God, there are religious laws at her/his service. And when s/he forget about (the rights of) her/his fellow humans, civil laws comes into play. No matter how plausible argumets you put forward, the truth is that atheism doesn't conform to our ideological foundations and there should not be any place for an athiest/agnostic person in our state service. P.S: People with judgemental knacks are requested to spare me in the instant case please!