gekaap
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From the article:
Equating religion with RACE? It's absurd.
I don't see how its different.
Look at the CONTEXT of the statement? One chooses Religion and must suffer whatever STIGMA(s) go with it. One does NOT have the oppritunity to choose what RACE they are born unto. (Other than the HUMAN Race)...
This is a very ignorant post. Religion is not really a matter of "choice." When people "choose" their religion, they are never sincere adherents to it. You cannot "choose" what you believe. You can choose to practice, you can choose to explore and learn about other ideas, you can even choose to be closed minded. But at the end of the day, people do not choose their religion.
Moving on, the comparison here is not whether religion and race are "the same thing" and I think you actually know that already. You're just trying to twist it around to avoid the implications that wouldn't serve your agenda very well. Several decades ago, black people were forced to give up their seats on buses, for no reason other than irrational hatred. Hell, it's not like it actually hurt anyone. The black person would still get to their destination at the same time. But the entire ordeal was a means of humiliation and demonization, and a way to treat black people as if they were sub-human. This incident on this plane, and other similar incidents that happen all too often over the past 10 years, is very comparable. It's essentially the same thing in action; demonizing a group of people for irrational hatred, humiliating them, and dismissing them as sub-human.
The fact that you support and advocate for stigmatization based on religion is disturbing, to say the least. Our country values freedom of religion and acceptance of religious differences. The very notion is antithetical to the values on which our country was founded, and inflames the ethics of decent people.