(January 31, 2015 at 4:16 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(January 31, 2015 at 4:02 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Yea and? You are posting on a website that has tons of American atheists who will read this knowing we are the most mistrusted minority in America, more mistrusted than Muslims and gays, currently.
I really hate it when people hide behind the past. No one is saying forget the past, we are saying you don't get a pass because of the past.
To be clear, who is the most mistrusted minority?
My point was, to correlate racism with Christianity is nonsense, Black Christians are discriminated against by white Christians, that's just plain old racism,
(January 31, 2015 at 4:16 pm)Esquilax Wrote: ... Who obtained his marriage license in his new home in Colorado, less than a month ago.Congratulations!
No shit. So if I point out to you black atheists other blacks discriminate against would that change your POV?
Yes the bible WAS used by white Christians to justify very horrible things. and? The Koran is also used to justify horrible things. And the OT as well.
You know how many blacks in the south flip out if you point out that two of Martin Luther King Jr's biggest supporters were atheists? And blacks down here while voting for Obama, also voted against gay marriage for the same reason whites did. RELIGION.
Your facial features and skin tone are a product of evolution. Labels like race and religion are artificial constructs humans have invented to create social pecking orders. Religion fosters racism and gives it cover.
So when you point to the past rightfully so, and say "look at what they did" fine, but that still does not mean you yourself and your own claims should be given a pass.
I hate that when Jews do it, I hate it when Muslims do it, I hate it when anyone does it. In evolution we are ALL both majorities and minorities depending on location and period of time.
Yes racism is DIRECTLY built into the big three religions. The worst idea that humanity inflicted on itself, even though it did not know any better at the time was the very bad idea of "chosen people".
FYI the west became civil in spite of Christianity, not because of it.
