Reply #21: False equivalency. [View All]

[Deep13]

Anti religion is not a prejudice. Prejudice means a pre judgment before knowing the facts. This is an informed conclusion. The fact that you don't like that conclusion and that some of us will not live by your religious values does not make it prejudicial. You think religion deserves respect. That is a religious conclusion that does not apply to those outside of ones religion.

Unlike race, gender or orientation, religion is an idea that is not in integral part of a person. A person is born Black, for example, and cannot change that. A person has to be indoctrinated into religion and may change his mind. Anti religion, therefore, is a critizim of an idea and not of a kind of person.

And anyway, does religion or does it not contribute to evil in this world? Would gay marriage even be an issue if this was a majority nonbeliever country? Would we still be locking people up for victimless crimes for decades if we did not believe in the irrational redemptive power of suffering?

Sorry, but your assertion fails no matter at what angle one looks at it.