making fun of fundamentalists may be rude ... but "racist"?
is this because of the homeschooling thing?
2006-08-25 12:24:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
okay RICKY .. i can see your point on the "bigotry" term, and other people's similar answers
why'd you CHANGE your answer?
does my riteing sugjest that i was homeskooled?
2006-08-25 12:44:07 · update #1
Bigot is often used as a pejorative term against a person who is obstinately devoted to their prejudices even when these views are challenged or proven to be false. I am not obstinately devoted to my beliefs, because as someone devoted to scientific method I am open to evidence. Any Christian is welcome to prove that their religion is objectively true. All I ask is they stick to the rules of logic, avoid rhetorical fallacies, and establish their claims definitively by scientific method. "I know it's true in my heart" won't do since they knew in their heart they were going to marry Billy some day and now he's living with his husband in San Francisco.
But as to calling it "racist", well obviously literacy is not highly valued everywhere.
2006-08-25 12:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Making fun of someones religion isn't racism, but it is bullying and smallminded. A lot of atheists that seem to have a problem with their self-esteem come here only to insult those that believe in a particular religion, which is bascially bullying. Apparently, either a lot of atheists have some very deep insecurity problems which results in their need to bully, or they're just ignorant. I suppose its a pretty fair mix of both. Strange though, the agnostics aren't usually like that, just the really rabid atheists. I guess rabid atheists are in the same category as fundies, huh?
2006-08-25 19:34:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mocking a person's religion isn't technically "racist", unless the mocker makes a point of the person's ethnicity at the same time. Like mocking "Italian Catholics" or "Hispanic Catholics" or "Indian Hindus" or something like that. At that point, the religion-bashing is a side issue to the mocker's real point, their racism.
Bigotry is pretty much all inclusive. If you judge people as a group based on their race, sex, religion, language, height, weight, whatever, then you are a bigot.
Bigotry isn't cool.
2006-08-25 19:41:17 · answer #3 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be. Religion is more of a choice that race is, so it doesn't count as "racism". "Bigotry"? Well, they might have a leg to stand on there. I don't like fundamentalist evangelicals and their pride in holding up ignorance and intolerance as virtues. I am far more tolerant of liberal churches of any stripe, though.
2006-08-25 19:28:24 · answer #4 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If someone calls someone else a racist for making fun of a religion, they are in dire need of opening a dictionary from time to time. Bigot fits perfectly though..... Perhaps you were home schooled yourself????
2006-08-25 19:27:16 · answer #5 · answered by Ricky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have no respect, they are not gentle, perhaps we can help them, and either they would learn or move on.... but we all have to treat them nice.... no matter the evilness they dish out, because we are better, we are of God's Spirit..... so let's kill them with kindness.
2006-08-25 19:45:10 · answer #6 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They aren't very intelligent and only know a few insults! these people probable should stick to single syllable words.
2006-08-25 19:43:57 · answer #7 · answered by Julia 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
and whats the deal with airline food
2006-08-25 19:31:52 · answer #8 · answered by Circlometry?? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't racism, but it is bigotry.
2006-08-25 19:28:34 · answer #9 · answered by kaplah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol... they like these words because they pack a punch and they have limited vocabularies...
2006-08-25 19:29:24 · answer #10 · answered by sarah_lynn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋