Religion shouldn't be called a race.

[Jackie]

I hate it when Jews or Muslims or Buddhists or Hindus accuse me of being a bigot when I tell them a religion is not a race.

No human picks where they are born, nor can they chose their skin tone or facial features. But one can grow to think and say, "What I was sold as far as claims no longer makes sense to me."

I am a staunch liberal, but have been called bigoted by all those groups above. 

If a religion were a race, then explain Sammy Davis Jr being a Jew. If Buddhism were a race, explain Richard Gere? If Hindu were a race then why can I find atheist websites rooted in India run by atheists born in India? If Catholic were a race, then they should all be Irish or Italian.

Our social norms are based on geography, and while racism does exist, it is an artificial construct. Our social norms do change because humans have always migrated and mixed. 

It is possible to be a former Jew, or former Buddhist or former Hindu just like one can ditch Christianity or Islam. Just like it is physically possible for a Christian to marry a Muslim, or a Buddhist to marry an atheist. Just like it is possible for a black person to marry a white person.

One of the biggest things that pisses me off about the needless conflict between Jews and Muslims is that if THE MAJORITY on both sides took DNA tests they'd both find out that they have more common ancestors who lived in that region prior to either religion existing.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Bigotry and racism aren't the same thing.  For example, this:

 If Catholic were a race, then they should all be Irish or Italian.

is an extremely bigoted comment, but it doesn't make you a racist.

Boru

[Angrboda]

Like it or not, there does appear to be a correlation between belonging to those religions and belonging to certain ethnic or racial groups. It probably requires more than that to conclude from someone's remark about a particular religion or religious adherent that they are stereotyping unfairly on the basis of that ethnic or racial correlation, but it does make a strong prima facie case that such comments might be directed at assumptions about race or ethnicity rather than religion.

[Jackie]

[Joods]

I think that some people just want to be angry about something. All. The. Time.

[Jackie]

[Angrboda]

[Joods]

Angry? Again how? Angry that I see alot of good in my fellow humans and still we are divided by artificial constructs? Yea and?

It was merely a comment, but your reaction to it speaks mounds.

[Jackie]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Explain to me where my logic is wrong, but please do not falsely accuse me of making a bigoted comment.

Delighted to explain, and your comment was bigoted. Here's why:

If Catholic were a race, then they should all be Irish or Italian.

This statement presumes 1) that all Catholics are Caucasian, and 2) that all Catholics are in Ireland and Italy.  Since the majority of the world's Catholics are both non-white and don't reside in those two countries, you've made a bigoted statement.  A less bigoted (but still inaccurate) statement would be, 'If Catholic were a race, they should all be Brazilian or Argentinian' (there are more Catholics in South American than in Europe).

Boru