RE: Oklahoma Republican wants to make secular marriage impossible.
February 3, 2015 at 11:39 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2015 at 11:48 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(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.
Just as an aside -- we're happy to have you. The country needs more hard-nosed thinkers.
(January 31, 2015 at 4:16 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: My point was, to correlate racism with Christianity is nonsense, Black Christians are discriminated against by white Christians, that's just plain old racism [...]
Firstly, religious beliefs and racism correlate:
Quote:A meta-analytic review of past research evaluated the link between religiosity and racism in the United States since the Civil Rights Act. Religious racism partly reflects intergroup dynamics. That is, a strong religious in-group identity was associated with derogation of racial out-groups. Other races might be treated as out-groups because religion is practiced largely within race, because training in a religious in-group identity promotes general ethnocentrism, and because different others appear to be in competition for resources. In addition, religious racism is tied to basic life values of social conformity and respect for tradition. In support, individuals who were religious for reasons of conformity and tradition expressed racism that declined in recent years with the decreased societal acceptance of overt racial discrimination. The authors failed to find that racial tolerance arises from humanitarian values, consistent with the idea that religious humanitarianism is largely expressed to in-group members. Only religious agnostics were racially tolerant.
http://psr.sagepub.com/content/14/1/126.abstract
This supports your point.
Secondly, it goes against your point, insofar as it demonstrates that religion tends to support racism, as part of an in-group/out-group psychology.
