(April 30, 2015 at 4:51 pm)Cephus Wrote: Judaism can be a race, it can also be a social group, but in the sense that a lot of people use it, they desperately try to imply that being Jewish is always a race and therefore, it is racism to disparage Judaism. They also try to do it with Islam, for which there is absolutely no defense. Brian is absolutely right that in practice, this race-card crap is obnoxious and false, even if in practice, some Jews can be part of a common racial group.
I am picking on the big three because currently they are causing the most distractions worldwide. But Buddhists and Hindus have pulled the race card too. I think once you read Dawkins and Stenger and Hitchens and Harris it becomes clear that religion causes more problems than it solves. And again, it isn't that you can completely rid the world of it, but our species would do far better if we would stop claiming it isn't the cause of human divisions.
Once you form a group and it gets political power it can ignore the damage it does to outsiders because our species cooperation has more to do with protecting what is local than taking a long term wider view of the world.
