Runa216 said:
so I was wrong about the definition of bigotry...yet I'm still not a bigot. I just checked out those links, and bigotry is " a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance ". a few points: 1 - I am not intolerantly devoted. If religion could prove to me that any of its claims were accurate, I'd switch my stance in a heartbeat and I'd gladly admit defeat. I'm simply going with science here, and logic dictates that religion as a whole is an irrational belief system regardless of what it's done for the greater good. 2 - it's not 'my opinion'. the difference between a cult and a religion is membership. a cult is a reigious devotion to a particular figure or object. seriously, that's its definition. another definition is "a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister." so basically, as long as the majority thinks a certain offshoot of a religion is strange or devious, then pretty much ANY religion can be classified as a cult. (Relaive to the people who aren't christians, all christians can be seen as weird.). sure, that's stretching the definition a bit, but that's the point: the difference between a cult and a religion is membership, or how popular/mainstream the beliefs are. Again, not an opinion, that's a definition. 3 - I do not regard or treat the members of a group with hatred or intolerance. Again, I have no problem with religious people, I have a problem with RELIGION itself. I happen to agree with science in that religion is an irrational belief system with no evidence or proof backing it up, but I don't hate religious people unless they shove it in my face or try to force it on me. in which case, I hate them for THEIR decision to push their faith on me and be aggressive about it. I'm plenty tolerant of people who are responsible with it. if someone tried to force me to listen to Justin Bieber, I'd hate them, too. So yeah, not a bigot, none of the 3 aspects of bigotry are there. I'm not devoted to hatred, just chosing a rational dislike for it. I'm not just spewing opinion, I'm going by the actual definition. I'm not hating people for being religious, I hate religion itself and I hate people for their decision to force religion on me, where that applies (read: a minority, but common enough to warrant angeer.) Besides, int he KKK case, it's okay to be a bigot! if I found someone who hated blacks, jews, gays, and all that stuff, I;d have every right to hate them for their beliefs. argue agaisnt that all you want, you would hate them, too. |
If we go strictly by the definition of ''irrationality'' atheism is also an irrational belief system. The only thing that is rational is agnosticism
