How can someone be racist and religious? that is so ridiculous!!!?

Question

I just read a question (i will mention no names) in which a person post a VERY racist question. i went to their Q & A and they ask so many spiritual questions in which they are trying convince atheists that there is a God, hmmm.....I wouldnt want to follow her religion - how can you hate a group of people but follow a GOD that created them. I am just curious, because MY GOD wouldnt approve of this behavior, how about yours?

Answer 1

That IS ridiculous. Judgement leads people into insanity!! My husband always says when you point the finger at someone you have 3 pointing back at you. I like how you put your question! Peace. Love.

Answer 2

There ARE "jerks" who have accepted Jesus and just haven't grown very much. It isn't an indictment against the particular 'religion' they espouse either, it's just them.
Racism is the meanest attitude in the world and those who are racist and don't know it are in need of prayer. There is lots of ignorance in this world and many religious groups/congregations support and endorse and encourage it..., from ALL races. Racism isn't just from one ethnic group. Fear and arrogance and pride is the source of most racism and that comes in all flavors and sizes and sometimes with actual authenticity of heart. I say this because I got a few relatives who truly just 'don't get it'!! If you said to them that they are racist, they would be upset with you and deny any such thing!
They miss other wonderful points in life also..., and the entire message of "love thy neighbor".

Answer 3

Because ultimately people will fashion their version of God into whatever it is they need God to be.

There are many many racists who claim to be Christians, that is a very very old circumstance. Lots of Christians owned and devised and carried out nightmarish abuses against slaves.

Very often people sculpt their image of who and what God should be (usually an all powerful version of themselves) and worship it. Or find people whose vision they accept and join that sect.

Edited to say:
What lovely folks these questions bring out of their holes. Such lovely words (and so many) to describe an idea which boils down to nothing more than "hooo doggie them N****** is shore stupid...". You know sort of like those impoverished white folks in the country, or the ones in cities around the nation. Gee, impoverish, ill educated white people. Who'd have thunk it...

Answer 4

yeah if this one guy said he loved everybody and gave his life savings away to charity and ended up being a mass murderer, is he still nice?

People are still people. Opinions change and the only way to develop oneself is with questioning. This person decides to be racist and religious both ignorant and straightforward at once. Maybe that's his characteristic or he was joking. But 1 person does not define a whole. So what if 1 guy decides to be racist. Thats his problem

Answer 5

Without a link, it is impossible to say whether your charge of "racism" is realistic, or just hypersensitive PC twaddle.

Races exist. There are proven differences in *types* of intelligence, innate abilities, and cultural expression. Genetic differences, that relate to geographic origin and are scientifically definable. Some are acutely aware of this, some prefer to believe we're "all the same" or "all equal."

But equality is rarely the issue.

Racism ALSO exists, and is unfortunate. Real world issues are rarely "single cause." One can point, for example, to the high violent crime rates within black communities, and blame ONLY poverty and discrimination, and that is "PC." One can also blame ONLY race . . . and that is, of course, racist. But if one points to the intersection of race and culture, and documents it with scientific data . . . is one being "racist," or trying to solve the problem REALISTICALLY from the available data?

Here's an example: Blacks score predictably lower, by about a standard deviation, on every known IQ test, and have a correspondingly lower level of academic achievement . . . but! IQ theories and tests are a product of Western/Northern European culture, and test the types of intelligence WE developed through evolution over time, and hence value more highly. They don't test the areas in which blacks are demonstrably MORE intelligent than whites---intuitive adaptation to environmental cues in particular . . . as evidenced by things from jazz to rap to, well, sports. If we accept Gardner's theories of multiple intelligences, those are forms of "IQ" we fail to value, and for which we have not devised appropriate test scales.

Recognizing *difference* is the beginning of respecting it. Calling difference "superiority" is racist, yes . . . but so is pretending it doesn't exist, and so is insisting particular ethnic, racial, or social groups need "protected" from the larger society and cannot be expected to make it on their own without the help of others.

Answer 6

Very true, I know God would never want this type of behavior going on. No one should ever force others to change beliefs.

Answer 7

easy religeous is one who follows religion, and all religion is an invention of mankind, and they can do as they please and justify it. NOW, to have faith, that is from God, God hates religion, he loves faith, faith is not of works, least anyone should boast, religion is set rules and ideas one is to follow, God has never asked man to be religious , but to be faithful, to believe as a mstard seed does, in that it never questions it's ability, it just grows to a stout tree, from the tiniest of all tree seeds. so can those who have faith, but those with religion are cursed from the truth and have no faith, We use the terms all wrong, No BOrn again believer (you must be born again John 3:16) can justify being a racist, God is not a racist, Christ was and is not a racist, and we are to mold our lives as Christ showed us to, so to be racist is a sin, and we need to repent of it, and do it no longer. otherwise, God won't be to happy, and you'll have to givre an account why on that day you enter into heaven , you won't loose your salvation (what the Lord has given, no man can take away), but He's not going to be to happy, and I for one got enough to worry about besides being racist.

Answer 8

While not indicative of all, there are definitely some out there who adhere a bit to closely to a "...religious calling (sic)written on plates of stone
by the flaming finger of an angry God"

Answer 9

It kind of goes to the theory of being able to talk the talk but not being able to walk the walk. There are many people who consider themselves "christians" because they can quote scripture front to back but do not know the first thing about living the biblical life.

Answer 10

I agree with you as well. but it been going around for many years and sad to say it most likely will remain here. God and racist just don't mix..