auto-da-fe

Both are handed down from generation to generation with rarely an original thought to be found.

Both exclude people who are not members of their particular belief.

Both are prominent with below average intelligence.

Intelectuals tend to avoid both, and even scorn those who do not.

Both are responsible for thousands upon thousands of deaths.

If both were abolished from the earth, it would be a much better place to live.

There are thousands of different types of each one (e.g., Catholic, Judaism, racism against blacks, racism against hispanics, etc.)

People who practice one or the other rarely know anything about its history and only do it because they are sheep who cannot think for themselves.



How many more can we come up with?

Pyrrho

The two have many similarities, because they both are based upon faith, or a belief unsupported by the available evidence. See:

http://ajburger.homestead.com/ethics.html

People use the term "faith" when they want to make it seem like a virtue, and "prejudice" or "bigotry" when they want to make it seem like a vice, but the three words have synonymous meanings.

Radcliffe Emerson

Many, many racist ideas in this country have been based on Christian interpretations of the bible.
That speaks volumes in comparing religion to racism, to me.

christ-on-a-stick

Interesting. In a manner of speaking, religion is itself actually a form of racism (the exclusivist ones anyway) in that they are prejudiced against the *entire* human race - believing it to be inferior/inherently "bad" - "unworthy", and in need of "salvation".

Radcliffe Emerson

I agree with your assessment.

braces_for_impact

Yes, this is true. There's always an "us and a "them". The "us" is usually seen as superior for some reason, even if it's adherents deny this.

luvluv

Three words come to mind when reading the offensive, stereotypical definition of religion on this thread, and when observing how the participants paint these pictures of religious people (as lacking intelligence, etc) on a thread supposedly decrying prejudice without a shred of irony.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

christ-on-a-stick

Care to elaborate, luv?

luvluv

Yes. Racists group people into stereotypical categories based on the worst traits a certain group of people is supposed to have.

This thread puts Christians into those categories without consideration of individuals or even individual strands of religions.

In short, this thread is prejudiced against Christians. If MegaDave were to say, of say homosexuals and Jews:

I doubt this thread would be recieving the support it has.

But when MegaDave speaks of removing Christians like myself from the face of the earth, none of you hesitated in supporting him.

In putting all religions in one broad group, and saying that their adherents are unintelligent and that the world would be a better place without them, you are participating in the very racism you are supposedly decrying.

This thread is so self-contradictory, so representative of the very attitudes it is supposed to be attacking, that it would actually be funny.... if it were not so sad.

ManM

As braces_for_impact wrote:
Now apply this criteria to MegaDave's original post.