Is criticism of religions racism?

I certainly do not think so, to me, religions are just like opinions, people can choose what they want to believe, but I reserve the right to disagree and argue with it.

Having said that, its one think to argue, another thing to harass a specific person for their opinions/religions/political views.

Please (Peacefully!) tell me what you think.

No, it isn't, and I think harassing those with a different religion wouldn't be racism either, there's other types of discrimination.

TC got it exactly right. A person is not born into a religion, thus it is not "racism" so to say in bashing the religion. However, it is descrimination if you refuse service or something like that to someone due to thier religion, which I believe is illegal.

I don't think so - most religions you don't need to be a certain race to be a member

It is not racist at all. It's Mormonism and Islam that are the biggest culprits of intolerance of criticism. I can't tell you the amount of times I've been called a racist, islamophobe or anti-mormon for criticizing those religions. It makes me want to criticize them twice as harshly. :P

no. prejudice based on religous grounds is called anti-semetism.

It is not racist at all. It's Mormonism and Islam that are the biggest culprits of intolerance of criticism. I can't tell you the amount of times I've been called a racist, islamophobe or anti-mormon for criticizing those religions. It makes me want to criticize them twice as harshly. :P

dracula_16

no. prejudice based on religous grounds is called anti-semetism.

Emraldo

no. prejudice based on religous grounds is called anti-semetism.

Emraldo

I'm pretty sure that stands for hatred against Jews specifically.

This makes everyone who criticize scientology a racist.

I certainly do not think so, to me, religions are just like opinions, people can choose what they want to believe, but I reserve the right to disagree and argue with it.

Having said that, its one think to argue, another thing to harass a specific person for their opinions/religions/political views.

Please (Peacefully!) tell me what you think.

Harkat95

What about Jews?BranKetra

Sammy Davis Jr was jewish......So is Adam Sandler....different Races.

[QUOTE="BranKetra"]What about Jews?CAWZY

Sammy Davis Jr was jewish......So is Adam Sandler....different Races.

[QUOTE="CAWZY"][QUOTE="BranKetra"]What about Jews?BranKetra

Bashing religious people and racism both fall in the camp of bigotry.

no. prejudice based on religous grounds is called anti-semetism.

Emraldo

[QUOTE="BranKetra"][QUOTE="CAWZY"]Sammy Davis Jr was jewish......So is Adam Sandler....different Races.scorch-62

Rulers of feudal Japan claim to be descendants of deities. Emperors of China are the same. In Europe, royalty had the same thing going on. Pharaohs in Egypt, too. I just wonder if Jewish people, being a race, have historical links to their religion.

Do you understand?

What about Jews?BranKetra

That is no acception, I can become Jewish any time I want to and I won't be part of this so called "race", where do you have to be born to be an official Jew? Isreal is a multicultural holy land, Jerusulum is a city so if I said I was a pure Jew because I was born in Jerusulum is like me saying I am a pure Catholic because I was born in Vatacin City, but being Catholic is not considered being part of a religion, however, for some reason most people refer or even consider Jews as a seperate race of people. There was this one time when I brought this question of Jews not being a race with a friend of mine and he told me I was wrong and that I was stupid...some friend.

[QUOTE="BranKetra"][QUOTE="CAWZY"]Sammy Davis Jr was jewish......So is Adam Sandler....different Races.scorch-62

You can't be geneticly a Jew, you can be born into it but the only genetic link to Jews were the Jewish slaves in the Bible, but those people followed a different religion and were segregated for it so in the long run you can not be geneticly Jewish.

Racist is claiming that one "race" is inherently superior to another. :|MattUD1

[QUOTE="BranKetra"] I mean genetic Jewish people that follow the actual 'religion of Judaism.metroidprime55

You can't be geneticly a Jew, you can be born into it but the only genetic link to Jews were the Jewish slaves in the Bible, but those people followed a different religion and were segregated for it so in the long run you can not be geneticly Jewish.

[QUOTE="scorch-62"][QUOTE="BranKetra"] I mean genetic Jewish people that follow the actual 'religion of Judaism.metroidprime55

You can't be geneticly a Jew, you can be born into it but the only genetic link to Jews were the Jewish slaves in the Bible, but those people followed a different religion and were segregated for it so in the long run you can not be geneticly Jewish.

[QUOTE="scorch-62"][QUOTE="BranKetra"] I mean genetic Jewish people that follow the actual 'religion of Judaism.metroidprime55

[QUOTE="metroidprime55"][QUOTE="scorch-62"] That wouldn't be criticizing religion then, now would it?scorch-62

[QUOTE="scorch-62"][QUOTE="metroidprime55"]You can't be geneticly a Jew, you can be born into it but the only genetic link to Jews were the Jewish slaves in the Bible, but those people followed a different religion and were segregated for it so in the long run you can not be geneticly Jewish.grape_of_wrath

*deleted is previous post* Dammit, I've been misreading too many posts today. >.> Anyway . . . [QUOTE="grape_of_wrath"][QUOTE="scorch-62"] I'm aware that you can be genetically Jewish, but that still doesn't mean that a harassing Jewish gene-Jew for his religion is racist. If you were harassing a Jewish gene-Jew for his religion and/or his race, that would be antisemitism. And even then just plain criticism still means nothing.scorch-62

Obviously not, but criticism of religion can be caused by racism.

First time I ever saw a thread get unlocked.

Racism has spanned to include people of a common heritage, and often that encompasses religion. In reality this would probably be more like bigotry than racism, but it's all just semantics because humans aren't actually different races scientifically speaking.

Also criticism isn't a negative things. Saying Christians are stupid = bad, asking for validation to the miracles performed by Jesus = good.

[QUOTE="metroidprime55"]

[QUOTE="scorch-62"] That wouldn't be criticizing religion then, now would it?grape_of_wrath

You can't be geneticly a Jew, you can be born into it but the only genetic link to Jews were the Jewish slaves in the Bible, but those people followed a different religion and were segregated for it so in the long run you can not be geneticly Jewish.

Isn't Israel a multicultural holy land that not only has Jewish people but Catholics and Muslums? The Jews as a race are from the same place as Muslums and any other Middle Eastern religious group.

[QUOTE="Harkat95"] Is criticism of religions racism? rawsavon

The meaning of racism in the modern day has come to encompass bigotry against "cultural heritage", which often includes religion.