RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED
January 18, 2015 at 2:25 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2015 at 3:10 pm by Brian37.)
(January 18, 2015 at 2:21 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(January 18, 2015 at 2:17 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I love my well intended friends on the left, but another thing they often do is allow both Muslims and Jews to use a bait and switch argument to avoid religion as the root cause to human division.
The scientific fact is that humans have always migrated and mixed beyond boarders. There is no such thing as a pure bloodline, there never was. Even during the early days of Islam, there was mixing between the tribes. The idea of Arabs or Jews never having done that is bullshit.
Allowing either religion to hide behind race allows them the dodge to avoid religion as the cause.
You cannot draw human blood, and find religion in it. Race is merely a label we give our skin tone. But that has never made any human generation in our species history pure. Our collective DNA goes back way further than any religion and even beyond our skin tone. Before we took our current form our ancestors were primates all the way back to tree monkeys.
Anyone allowing Jews or Muslims to dodge religion with skin tone is not helping. Does racism exist? Yes, but that cannot be used as an excuse by the religious because religion is religion.
True, but I have noticed a tendency for the right leaning on the board to target a whole population for the actions of the looney fringe.
As with anything it's the ones who really take it seriously who need to be watched. The half arsed Muslims and Christians are mostly ok. Its the true believers you need to watch.
Just had a bleeding heart liberal atheist on twitter claim I was protecting racism by not allowing religion to be treated as a race. Jew is a religion, Islam is a religion, neither were ever a race.
Race unfortunately is used in the same way religion is, to set up social pecking orders. It is also why Muslims and Jews use it as a bait and switch to avoid their religion being criticized.
DNA only denotes your skin tone, it does not make your bloodline pure.
I am also getting shit from Jews because they cant understand the difference between labels, which I do not deny, and the separate issue of the fact that there were humans prior to them, and even after, our species has always mixed and migrated.
There is no such thing as a pure bloodline. Labels only amount to our constructs that we use, that however does not change the fact that ALL humans are ultimately related in the past to much older primates.
