why not religionism ?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Winterhold mentioned discrimination, not ‘hate’. While there is admittedly some overlap between the two, it’s not reasonably deniable that virtually all religions are inherently discriminatory towards both other religions and the irreligious (some of the neo-pagan loonies and a few others are exceptions).

Even the particular god you worship is capable of both discrimination and hate.

Boru

sorry didn't realize i needed to hold the great boru's hand though my use of the word hate. as discrimination is not synomous nor intrinsically holds any ill will in the simple act of discrimination. A person who understand this term and does not jump the gun understand discrimination is a neutral act. it can be used it identify people in need or the extremely smart among us. it can also be uses as a tool to group like minds together to teach more effectively and or treat a group a certain way. where discrimination becomes a problem is when people use this tool as a means to isolate and hate others. because discrimination is a netural tool it can be used to build up and tear down. only the indoctrinated see discrimination as a tool for only the wicked. in fact this whole thread is about discrimination between religious and non religious people. which in of itself is a non issue, but the follow up to this line of separation is why are religious treated as people who use discrimination as a means to separate and hate? to which i pointed out not all discrimination leads to hate in fact i went so far as to identify the types of discrimination that are tied to hate which are not tools of the church alone.

I must have missed where you explained about the different forms of discrimination. My apologies.

Yes, discrimination can be a neutral and even a useful act, but that is manifestly not the tone taken by the OP. Winter was clearly referring to religious discrimination in its most negative sense, and I’ve chose to follow his lead.

No one is claiming that negative discrimination is a exclusively tool of the church - people discriminate for all sorts of reasons. But - not to belabour the point - this particular thread happens to be about religious discrimination. And I stand by my earlier point that the majority of people doing it are religionists. I’ve been discriminated against by these types and I’m not even religious.

Boru