Isn't fundamentalism technically racism?

Question

I mean racism is the belief that your race is superior to all other races.

Fundamentalism is the belief that your religion is the absolute truth and all other religions are false.

Also fundamentalism, like racism, has lead to violence (surely I don't need to give you an example).

fivescore, I practice Catholicism so don't you tell me I don't understand and if you think the Christians were never violent then I guess you never heard of the Crusades, and if that's too far back for ya how about the bombing of the Murrah federal building, or the attempted mass stoning of a group of Wiccans in Arkansas.
IS THAT PROOF ENOUGH?

Ok I don't think any of you get this I'M A CATHOLIC NOT AN ATHEIST.

and Randy G what I'm saying here is not that it's wrong to believe that your religion is true. When I say fundamentalism I mean the over-the-top kind of fundamentalism that provoked:
-The assassination of Yitzak Rabin
-The bombing of the Murrah federal building.
-inneumerable suicide bombings
-the Beslan school shooting
-etc.
again do I need to continue?

ok Randy G, now I see why we disagree you heard a completly different side of the story than I did (not that I'm saying either side is right). The story I heard states that the Pope was just corrupt and wanted the holy land for the Christians so he made up lies and said that the Muslims were torturing the Jews so that his devoted followers would set out to reclaim the holy land.

My deffinition of Fundamentalism differs from yours as well. I was taught that fudamentalism was (well I wrote the def in my details) I guess you see it as someting more moderate.

I hate to admit it but your probably right about most of this stuff though I mean I'm just a high school sophtmore whereas your... idaknow older than me (no offence)

and also EJ was there a point to your answer.

Answer 1

So, if an atheist thinks that he is absolutely right in believing that there is no god, then the atheist is like a racist?

If on the other had, you are making a distinction between confident atheists, and confident religious people, then what is the justification for this distinction? I don't think that you can come up with one.

Why is having self-confidence in your beliefs the same as racism? I don't get the connection.

I think that you might be confusing arrogance with self-confidence; they are really not the same thing. Self-confidence is usually not competitive, for example, so it does not lead to hate.

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Regarding the Crusades, why are the Europeams considered to be the ones at fault because they fought back against Muslins who invaded Christian lands first? Sounds like a big double standard (or else you don't know your history).

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...So what is the truth about the Crusades? Scholars are still working some of that out. But much can already be said with certainty. For starters, the Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression—an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands.

Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them. While Muslims can be peaceful, Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword. Muslim thought divides the world into two spheres, the Abode of Islam and the Abode of War. Christianity—and for that matter any other non-Muslim religion—has no abode. Christians and Jews can be tolerated within a Muslim state under Muslim rule. But, in traditional Islam, Christian and Jewish states must be destroyed and their lands conquered. When Mohammed was waging war against Mecca in the seventh century, Christianity was the dominant religion of power and wealth. As the faith of the Roman Empire, it spanned the entire Mediterranean, including the Middle East, where it was born. The Christian world, therefore, was a prime target for the earliest caliphs, and it would remain so for Muslim leaders for the next thousand years....

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P.S.: It doesn't matter to me whether you are a catholic or an atheist, my point remains the same.

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I think that we are arguing over semantics; it is not "fundamentalism", but "fanaticism" that is bad. I agree that it is bad to kill other people because one considers himself to be superior.

Answer 2

I don't think it's thinking that one religion is absolutely superior to all other religions. Religion is something that most atheists don't understand, which is obvious in your question. "I am the TRUTH, the WAY, and the LIGHT" IS a fact. All we're trying to do is get that through people's heads. And I don't think we've ever violently tried to do that. Violence just comes as a reaction to those people who just don't get it.

Answer 3

Truth by definition is exclusive. If something is true, everything else is autmoatically untrue. That's just logic. And atheists make a truth claim themselves - the claim that there is nothing. That automatically says that people who believe there is a God are absolutely wrong. Aren't they therefore guilty of equal arrogance?

Answer 4

Nope. Race is much farther down the ladder. There are many different types of fundamentalism inside each racial category. Many kinds of Caucasians don't like each other.

Answer 5

Chameleon

"eye am ten, raised to the power: minus forty-three
seconds ago
eye am sixteen billion—Big Bang—years of sunsets since
call me Eastern Stardust Time
'fore eye was a cell, a clam, a crayfish
'fore eye was a frog, a turtle duck billed Dodo bird a
Platypus,
a dragon fly, a pollywog
'fore eye was a heron shy, a swallow full of sky, a
trilobite, a fire spark,
a meadowlark, a grain of sand, that grew into a stone,
a breath of air, & 'fore eye was a bone, eye was a
shadow:
a protozoariferacoelenterata,
plathyhelmintheaschelmenthemykindyourdermata
mollusannelidoidanthropodointegumentarychordata,
remember me, my flag it purple flowers fly:
forgetmenots my color
'fore eye was a bone, eye was a shadow,
dangling chromosomes of genus: You Know
oh swarthy Ethiopia, recall my own aunt Lucy
quand nous sommes: mille-huit cent-soixante quartorze
dawn Riot aegyptopithecus,
skull intact two million tears ago
sharper than mosquitoes "petahs"
32 teeth in Miocene Time
one prospector bone jumping Sapien
they never got it right,
but called us by another name
when no tail grew,
thirty thousand years of snow would go
dubbed 'em dignop-ragmop Rasta-Pongid-Missing Link
Big Foot, Yinee shot dice on a gene splice & Neanders
thawed
frostbite feet froze off Ice Age
stone flecks come the Peking man
then dropped like fire sticks
grew me & you & all the shades of them no one has seen
'em since
‘****** dice don't roll’
still Aunt Lucy says to say hello
Eyeball am here to testify: a Sapien,
a sole survivor, sweet Aunt Lucy's kin
come not she your aunt Lucy too
what solar system sky?
please tell me who? as what ? by how?
or whence? from where do your own ancestors fly?
whose jaws with skulls
the carbon dated bones back when?
you see, my friend
we are the spawn of saurs
no count tribes, whose thoughts grew out of grunts old
nods,
hand jive & screams--no word, odd signs,
engirdling tones the bread defined
the mantra said: yo-kee gee-ring-ho yo-mee-nam
our silence sings The Dream Time
to Ghaghaju-griot hearing aids
Sangria gun-gun great uncle juju Bushman kindled fire,

gathered roots his horse who rides me still
up a mountain-down the Belladonna shade
a million five ago & ashes
when the no name Mhamha's
announced us kin to cousin Taung's child
petrified like magma swirls
the garnet gleans a snowball stone
where once eye lay chameleon raw,
preserved in time, a lump of coal,
my jelly shook in oyster shells,
the progeny of apple cores--because:
'fore eye was a cell, a clam, a crayfish,
'fore eye was a frog,
a turtle, duck billed Dodo bird, a Platypus,
a dragon fly, a pollywog,
a trilobite, a heron shy, a meadowlark,
cyanogenic drop of rain, a fire spark,
'fore eye was a grain of sand that grew into a stone,
a breath of air 'fore eye was a bone,
eye was a shadow:
a protozoariferacoelenterata,
plathyhelmintheaschementheyourkindmydermata,
mollusannelidoidanthropodaintegumentarychordata
remember me, my flag, it purple flowers fly:
forgetmenots my color, 'fore eye was a bone eye was a
shadow."
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Answer 6

No...technically it isn't.

Racism is racism. It has nothing to do with religion.

They're analogous, but one is not a subset of the other.