(February 5, 2019 at 4:23 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(February 5, 2019 at 4:09 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I know, right? According to Atlas, white folks have been the reason for any meaningful historic event anywhere, and all the other ethnicities have essentially just been sitting there doing nothing but getting pushed around. Which sure sounds like a white supremacist talking point.
It is sort of a white supremacist talking point. And I freaking dare you to stand in front of some black people who are complaining about white people, and say to them what you are saying to Atlas.
Excuse us?
You have only been at this website what, for how long? A couple weeks/months at best? You are new here.
I have been here for almost a decade, and Atlass has been here around the same time.
Islam is not a race. Neither is Jew, or Christian or Hindu or Buddhist.
No human has a choice in their facial features or skin tones. But all of us can grow up to think about what our parents/society sell us, and keep or reject the claims they sell us.
THERE ARE Muslims in the world that ARE oppressed. There are Christians and Jews in the world that ARE oppressed. Just as there ARE gays and atheists in the world that ARE oppressed.
Holding the positions I do now, if I were alive during Martin Luther King Jr, whom I would have supported if alive then, and knowing I support the likes of Malala, and knowing I support the life of Ann Frank, how dare you claim we cant or don't have empathy for theists. Theism IS NOT A SKIN COLOR. It is a position.
Atheists are very capable of having empathy for theists, but theism itself is not a race. Sammy Davis Jr was a BLACK JEW. Actor Richard Gere is white and a claimed Buddhist. Singer Cat Stevens now known as Yusuf Islam also was not born in Islam.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali WAS born in the middle east, WAS raised in Islam, does have dark skin, and SHE questioned her former religion, Islam like I did my former Christianity, and both of us, despite our geography, having never met each other in person, came to the same conclusion that what our parents/society sold us was not true.
