Unlike race, gender, sexual orientation or age, people have some ability to control which ideologies they will align themselves with (although the childhood brainwashing can make that extremely difficult, particularly if your country and family are monolithic.) I find it ethical to be prejudiced against those who believe a woman should be "kept in her place" by hitting her, and I find it ethical to be prejudiced against those who believe in a vicious god or gods.
Before you clap your hands over my discrimination against various Muslim denominations, be aware that I think Southern Baptists, Pentacostols and Southern Methodists are just as bad and deserve to be scorned.
If any Western religion is more decent than the others, it is obviously Judaism. They have traditionally been the victims of the other two. And Buddhism is the most decent of all.
2007-03-20 06:49:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"I find it ethical to be prejudiced against those who believe a woman should be "kept in her place" by hitting her, and I find it ethical to be prejudiced against those who believe in a vicious god or gods"
Sounds more like you are prejudice against people who advocate violence, and not so much religion.
2007-03-20 06:53:12 · answer #1 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you are going to find a religion that is fair and beaten down you should try to look a bit harder. One of the most discriminated religion/s are the nature based ones. Even the jews burned them at stakes calling them withches and such. Heck, in the old testament, which is all jewish history, they burned witches or rather thoes who praticed nature based religions. There was also the Burning Time, aka the Inqusition. And the Salem Witch Trials of American past.
The religion that fall under Wicca, Druid, and Paganism are all nature based and center on the celebration of the turning of the season and fertility.
There is a strong system of 'magical' beleifs, but most of it can be understood as a complex way of praying for what one wants. There are even simple rules on how to do such without breaking the will of others. Because of these beleifs they were burned and worse.
Much of what the christian and other religions see as the devil was the demonization of the greek goatleged Pan creature. The name Hell was taken from a Nose goddess named Hel who was a guardian of the gateway to the underworld. This religious discrimination to the extream. The babalonian god Belzabub was listed in Christian books as a name of the devil. Lucifer ment light giver and was honored among pagans as the bringer of light to the world. Not an outcast angel and yet another name for the devil. It should also be noted that no where in the bible is a discription of the devil given.
Buddhism is not a Western religion. It is of Eastern orgins. Buddha was a Hindu and an Indian prince. He died a Hindu as well. He like many people who strived for religious reform ended up creating a new religion reather than reforming the one he was part of. (Jesus Christ, who was born and died Jewish, Martin Luther, who was Catholic and founded the Luther church, are just two who tried to reform religion but instead created their own faith system.) The Buddhism faith took root mainly in China and other Asian countries.
Discrimination is never fair. It spreads the seeds of hate like danilion fluff on spring winds. It gets every where fast and takes root and is almost impossible to get rid of once established.
2007-03-20 14:52:53 · answer #2 · answered by last_red_dragon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can see your point up to a point. But religion is merely a tendency to see the world in a particular way, not a definite worldview. In order to get a group of people to believe exactly the same thing, you'd have to get a group the size of Westboro Baptist Church or smaller, and I bet there's some small differences of opinion even there.
If it is ethical to be disgusted by sanctioned/ignored spousal abuse, it is not ethical to assume that all members of that denomination agree with it on all points.
2007-03-20 06:55:32 · answer #3 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um. I think in every single thing that takes place in this world there is discrimination.
No one should be scolded for what they believe unless they break the law.
and there is no laws for it, obviously because it's not that big of a problem
children are raised to the best of the ability of the parents
Even non-religious people brain-wash their children, telling them things are fact, when they aren't...
Men is believe woman should be kept in her place, are held accountable by the law.
There are Jewish people out there who kill, rape and child molest, just as those who are Christian, Catholic, Atheist and Agnostic, Buddhist's and Muslim's...
2007-03-20 06:56:40 · answer #4 · answered by chersa 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It seems in any religion, there is one thing I don't agree with, like, men having more than 1 wife, or women being being kept in there place, I don't agree to violence at all. I would like to see the world be a better place, if people could just dissolve their evil ways, and see that were all human, we all want peace, love, acceptance, and harmony in our lives.
2007-03-20 07:02:04 · answer #5 · answered by debe20062000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No religious discrimination is not justified, I don't care what your religion is as long as you believe in God. However your religion at the same time has no right to kill those that don't follow it. I call him God you can call him Zeus I don't care, but don't say I am wrong and should die.
2007-03-20 07:00:37 · answer #6 · answered by James B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't think discrimination of any kind is a good thing.
i might not like what some of the followers of a religion do, but i'm not going to discriminate against the whole religion because of some.
bb
2007-03-20 06:58:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not discriminate against religions although i disagree with and dislike them. Among my religious pet peeves is "we know better, we are right and you are wrong" That is what i will be saying if i discriminate against them. Do what you want to do as long as it is between consenting adults and you keep it away from me
2007-03-20 06:57:12 · answer #8 · answered by uz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think people should be considered based on HOW they live, not to what labels they have attached to them. some people follow religion different than others, and one's actions should be the deciding factor.
2007-03-20 07:03:47 · answer #9 · answered by Ember Halo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋