Xenophobic?

[vorlon13]

I've probably hammered Mormons more than any other 'faith' here (I can't even consider LDS an actual religion any more as they have failed so miserably with their theology) but I have on occasion noted (to me at least) the Mormons are clearly using the same play book as other faiths, and have established themselves recently enough and coupled with an absolutely BIZARRE and INEXPLICABLE compulsion to document and publish all their perfidy and connivance so as to finally unmask how most all other religions have 'made their sausage' too.

I'm aware early Mormons were persecuted zealously for their manifest, confused and confusing heresies, but I think had those zealots of yore appreciated fully the damage the Mormons would actually do to all other religions, they might have fought a bit harder to have kept them from spilling the beans on how cults form and gestate into false religions.

Icing on the cake is the over 100 subsequent schisms the Mormons themselves have shat into the world of religion.

Mormonism; self-disproven, ludicrous, fallacious, obviously contrived and made up as they went along, a greasy blot of feces, lube and spent semen on all the other faiths.

[henryp]

Okay, so... This has probably already been discussed. I kind of don't feel like bumping anything or searching though (I'm a bad seed). Came into this recent problem when trying to discuss Islam on social media (my first mistake, I know) after current events. I try to express why Islam has a lot to do with the recent massacre and as to why Islam is not good, one of the most violent religions, and I have even suggested that it is idiotic and has no place in modern society. Lots were/are appalled at me, of course, and call me out immediately for not bringing other religions into the mix... I am apparently incredibly xenophobic and ignorant if I only scrutinize Islam. If I talk about religion in general though, I'm well just an asshole. But not a xenophobic asshole. It is quite frustrating. I feel that Islam is a completely different religion than the others and that it needs to be talked about separately.

Oh, and might I add that whenever I express that Islam is bad, people always like to chime in with the list of Muslim people that they personally know adding that they are very nice people. It completely derails the conversation and makes it hard to talk about anything else. I find myself constantly digressing to hit all points when talking about Islam. Never a straight path.

So, my question is, is it bigoted, rude, or xenophobic to only discuss one religion? Or must you tackle them all? Are all religions equally bad?

P.S. Sorry if this has already been spoken about. I'm sure every atheist has come across this in one form or another.

A funny thing people do, is demand that everyone in the world evolve at exactly the same pace they do.  In 2008, everybody voted for a candidate that supported marriage as just between a man and a woman.  In 2016, if you supported a candidate who thought that, you'd be a bigot.  But nobody thinks they themselves were a bigot in 2008.  People are just self-centered narrow-minded dopes.

Where Islam exists, primarily, is like 2008.  Except really it's more like 1500 over there.  They're still in burning witches/owning black people mode.   That those people believe in Islam rather than Christianity, or even if they are atheist, it's all sort of irrelevant.  Whatever the prominent belief system is in a place like that is going to result in some awfulness.  That's just where they are in their slower cultural development.

So, I would say you're spot on and fully justified with your xenophobia.  The 1500's are scary as fuck, and so are the people in countries that behave like it's the 1500's.  I don't personally think Islam is the root of the problem, as much as a symptom.  It just hasn't had the chance to get watered down and made compliant like, say, Catholicism in the North East in the US.