RE: Religion shouldn't be called a race.
July 4, 2018 at 1:23 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2018 at 1:53 pm by Brian37.)
(July 4, 2018 at 1:16 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(July 4, 2018 at 10:15 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Like it or not, there does appear to be a correlation between belonging to those religions and belonging to certain ethnic or racial groups. It probably requires more than that to conclude from someone's remark about a particular religion or religious adherent that they are stereotyping unfairly on the basis of that ethnic or racial correlation, but it does make a strong prima facie case that such comments might be directed at assumptions about race or ethnicity rather than religion.
David Baddiel put it best when he said he is an atheist but jewish enough that the Nazis would've killed him.
So its more complex than it seems at first glance.
It is only complex in the context it is needlessly so. Most liberals accept we should all have equal rights and that we are all humans. But it is still important to understand those complexities for diplomacy reasons.
All I am trying to point out is that you cannot single out one religion and ignore others.
Humans do wrongfully confuse race, culture, ethnic, nationality as being religion itself. Those do exist, and humans do discriminate based on those things, but again, one cannot choose their skin tone, or facial features, nor can they chose where they are born. But we can grow to say to ourselves, "what my society, family sold me no longer makes any sense to me."
(July 4, 2018 at 12:47 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: It's not a race? The finish line appears to be heaven, hell, rebirth,.............
2 Timothy 4:7
LOL, I stand corrected. It is a race, a needless race over whose fictional deity will win the Kentucky Derby.