since when has religion become inherent to racism?

When critizising Christian faith, I get called a satanist.

When critizising Islamic faith, I get called a racist.

WTF!

 

But neither would ever be fulfilling the wholeness of a legitimate community.

 

When I criticize Pirates, I get called a Homophobe!

wtf indeed...

 

racism is not inherent to racism (hat doesnt even make sense to me)...but for people who identify religiously its one of the strongest ways in whch they identify/define themselves. so for some, religion is more important than race. but also at this point in time, especially since 9/11, the islamic religion has been critcizied and looked down upon by much of the world. i can see where it would upset people who are frustrated with criticsms from the uneducated, but I don't know what you said in either of your criticisms, and i dont know the background of who said you were a satanist or racist...

 

When you "belong" to something like religion or a club, that makes you exclusive within that system.

It gives people a sense of power over others they might not have on their own.

Religion divides, despite it's claims to the contrary.


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i can see where you're coming from, but this isn't always true. For as much as religion creates conflict, relgion also has the power to create peace among people or groups who hold different views.

I want to say that its generally the more conservative people within a religion that are exculsive and cause the divide, but even that is not a fair or true statement. I'll take Judaism as an example, just cuz the words reform, conservative, and orthodox make it easier. It is possible that a reform Jew be less accepting of other Non-Jews than the Orthodox Rabbi who might support interfaith dialouge. This is true in all religions.

close mindedness comes from many other things and is present in all walks of life.

 

Ofcourse religion isn't inherent to racism, thats the whole point.
Its very nice of you trying to defent Islam or any religion, you still are good for hell in the eyes of most moslims and christians anyways. and I don't blame them for thinking that, they are conditioned in thinking that way; by religion that is.
You probably haven't critizised any of those religions to experience yourself the names they call you when doing so. frustrating indeed when they can't come up with a good argument, and instead calling you names. Which is very common when critisizing religion. Atleast thats my experience...

 

There's a difference between criticising a religion and powerhousing into a forum and declare everyone's belief systems stupid and meaningless, which is what I see all too frequently on the Christian forums (I don't know about here, I don't tend to venture Hip Forums at all extensively tbh). That kind of treatment is bound to cause people to be defensive and you'll get people calling you racist and ignorant. What is different are those who come into a religious forum and ask questions and give opinions on whether they agree or not in a polite, conversationalist way rather than trolling about why they think its al stupid. You will find they don't get called racist.