At first I thought, "duh", but then I thought, i wonder if this is less "religion = racism and more "people who believe stupid crap without asking questions" are more likely to be both religious and racist.
Actually it noted a state of mind associated with spirtuality occuring more in people with brain cancer before their operations to remove said cancer than after. Or something rather closer to that than what you said.
I thought I recalled an article about that not long ago, but my statement still stands.
that said, I agree that religion is absurd. None are free from being silly (though some are sillier than others). But I also don't mind if someone digs a religion (I certainly like mine) provided it doesn't turn them into a hateful, fearful, ignorant turd. And it seems clear that there are some religions that tend to attract people who are happy to leave other people alone and let them live their own lives, and other religions tend to attract people who want to moralize, control, and rule others.
See, my problem isn't with anyone's religion. it's with their behavior and their expectations. It just seems that much of that is fueled by their religion. I don't personally care if someone digs gay marriage, for example, as long as they don't use their religion as an excuse to prohibit it. At that point, that guy can go screw himself.
I heard an interesting proposition on the CBC the other day -- that since the vast majority of people are religious and thus "normal", what we ought to be studying are the people who don't swallow stupid crap.
I don't really care which direction the causation flows in, because both religion and racism require non-thinking and anti-thinking, and both of those things are definitely and without any doubt bad things. "Coincidentally", prevention of non-thinking, curing of anti-thinking, and encouragement of thinking leads to non-religious non-racist people.
(For what it's worth, my own observation is that all racist people are religious, and *most* but not all religious people are racist. Which leads me to conclude that causation generally flows from racism to religion. At the same time, there are religions whose defining characteristic is their racism, or homophobia, or sexism, or all three, or some other bigotry, where would-be converts are required to adopt the idiocy in order to be welcome in the community.)
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Date: 2010-03-08 09:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-03-08 11:01 pm (UTC)I was making a flat statement.
(If it wasn't stupid, they'd use a word other than "religion" to describe it.)
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Date: 2010-03-09 03:58 am (UTC)that said, I agree that religion is absurd. None are free from being silly (though some are sillier than others). But I also don't mind if someone digs a religion (I certainly like mine) provided it doesn't turn them into a hateful, fearful, ignorant turd. And it seems clear that there are some religions that tend to attract people who are happy to leave other people alone and let them live their own lives, and other religions tend to attract people who want to moralize, control, and rule others.
See, my problem isn't with anyone's religion. it's with their behavior and their expectations. It just seems that much of that is fueled by their religion. I don't personally care if someone digs gay marriage, for example, as long as they don't use their religion as an excuse to prohibit it. At that point, that guy can go screw himself.
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Date: 2010-03-09 03:40 am (UTC)God on the brain
Date: 2010-03-09 02:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-08 09:26 pm (UTC)I'm inclined to agree with
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Date: 2010-03-09 01:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-09 04:05 am (UTC)(For what it's worth, my own observation is that all racist people are religious, and *most* but not all religious people are racist. Which leads me to conclude that causation generally flows from racism to religion. At the same time, there are religions whose defining characteristic is their racism, or homophobia, or sexism, or all three, or some other bigotry, where would-be converts are required to adopt the idiocy in order to be welcome in the community.)
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