Why offending religion isn't "racism"

Make a statement questioning religion(not just belief in god but the organizations and systems of religion) and you are quickly labeled a racist. Why do we use the this word in this case and with the prejudice of race? Its illogical as religion is chosen by an individual while a religion is not.

Make a statement questioning religion(not just belief in god but the organizations and systems of religion) and you are quickly labeled a racist. Why do we use the this word in this case and with the prejudice of race? Its illogical as religion is chosen by an individual while a religion is not.

Yes, Religion is optional and race is not.

Why do so many ''educated'' people think that something not being optional makes it ok? Firstly nobody chooses their religion, a Muslim can't just stop believing in Allah any more than I can stop believing my eyes are brown. Secondly if I were born a pychopath would that be ok, should you accept for who I am?


Our social system has retained these strange neo-Christian principles of free will when in reality every action we undertake is not a product of free will, but of out underlying chemistry.

You can't necessarily MAKE someone change their religion (some people are too entrenched), but if it is possible for anyone to change their religion then it must always be a choice. Admittedly it won't feel like a choice when everyone around you believes the same thing and there are enormous social (or in some cases criminal) repercussions for openly rejecting their dogma, but it is a choice.

The vast majority of Muslims and Christians are Muslims and Christians because their parents were Muslims or Christians. If I was born in Saudi Arabia instead of England, I'd be a Muslim. If I was born 1500 years earlier then I'd have been raised as a Pagan rather than a Christian. If I didn't have the resources or the freedom to be able to challenge what I was taught as a challenge then I would never have chosen to reject Christianity.
I have very much decided that I am an agnostic atheist - I have chosen my religion (or lack thereof).

It's not a choice. You did not choose to be an agnostic Atheist, you were probably born to White parents of lapsed Christian background and as such a religious worldview was never seriously presented to you, you are as entrenched in your belief as a Muslim. There is no difference.

I went to a faith school. As far as every teacher I had at that school was concerned, the Bible was sacred. We had weekly assemblies with the priest, near weekly Bible study sessions, and prayed up to three times each day. When I left that school there was no doubt in my mind that God was real. It wasn't until I learnt more about the world that I started to question this.

I am prepared to entertain solid evidence of a god presented by a religion. I've yet to see anything worthy of worship.

Your subjective concept of what evidence entails is influenced by your background, to a Muslim the way the ecosystem fits together is a evidence of an intelligent designer.

You seem to like to put words into other people's mouths.

How do you explain all the ex-Moslems? Having been brought up in entrenched Moslem homes, among an Islamic community, by your reckoning they couldn't possibly have made their escape. But they did.

Irrelevant.

Your subjective concept of what evidence entails is influenced by your background, to a Muslim the way the ecosystem fits together is a evidence of an intelligent designer.

Why do so many ''educated'' people think that something not being optional makes it ok? Firstly nobody chooses their religion, a Muslim can't just stop believing in Allah any more than I can stop believing my eyes are brown. Secondly if I were born a pychopath would that be ok, should you accept for who I am?


Our social system has retained these strange neo-Christian principles of free will when in reality every action we undertake is not a product of free will, but of our underlying chemistry.

You claimed I'd not been exposed to a truly Christian world view. I demonstrated that was not the case. Of course it's relevant.

Subjective isn't really the word I'd use. The scientific consensus of what constitutes evidence is probably closer to the mark. If a Muslim believes the way the ecosystem fits together is evidence of a creator then good for them, but almost every time I've read about these kinds of things their conclusion ("It's so complex ergo God did it" is based on severely limited observations. I mean, you can always say "God created this thing just this way because reasons", but it doesn't really stand up to much rigorous questioning if you are aware of inconsistencies or really weird stuff like vestigial limbs/organs.

But honestly, this is so unrelated to the actual topic that there's no point continuing this discussion.

You're actively choosing to follow religion. You're not believing your eyes are brown, its a fact that your eyes are brown. You can stop believing in god if you started accepting reality but that wasn't the argument I was making. There is no choice or belief in what races you are while being part of religion has some element of choice. Believing in god is nt the same as being born into a race

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Its all the same for most people lmaooo thick and a half

Make a statement questioning religion(not just belief in god but the organizations and systems of religion) and you are quickly labeled a racist. Why do we use the this word in this case and with the prejudice of race? Its illogical as religion is chosen by an individual while a religion is not.

It's Muslims, in Arabic the word ''moslem'' means an evil-dooer.