(November 25, 2015 at 7:30 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: I swear the word bigot gets thrown around these days like the L-word at a high-school after-prom party. Does it even mean anything any more? I think it might be a type of shoe by now.
Agreed.
I think it is perfectly acceptable to not like, and even hate an individual, but also value human rights without the desire to do physical harm to them just because they say things that make you want to metaphorically strangle them.
Even using cuss words to be blunt about an absurd claim does NOT make someone a bigot.
Especially with the religions of Abraham, but still to me applies to all religions in human history, it is like having family(my fellow humans) forming groups, based on naked assertions, which no, you cannot stop, but then on top of that, getting political to the point of collecting weapons and killing over which club is better than the other.
I feel like the outsider going "GUYS I DON'T WANT YOU DEAD, BUT CAN WE ALL STOP KILLING EACH OTHER! FUCKING KNOCK IT OFF!"
You have to criticize and blaspheme religion, just like you should not let a political party or rich family, or a business model have a monopoly over an entire nation, much less the entire planet.
