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Yeah well, the ones that have the biggest problems with religion are mostly religious people. Maybe you find plenty to complain about because of that you're a faithful christian.
This "maybe you just complain about it because you're a Christian" stuff is beyond ridiculous. The implication is that I am so devout in my Christian beliefs that I automatically complain about anything that differs simply because I feel differently. So, just come out and say that, why don't you? And better yet, why don't you demonstrate it? Wow me with your knowledge of the Qur'an and show me how I hold an unreasonable bias against their beliefs.
Or, better yet still, you could admit that your remark was casual and really based on nothing other than wanting to have something you perceived as scalding to say.
Your choice.
That's such a pointless remark. What has that to do with anything? I am a bigot because I thought Toose's remark was an expression of bigotry? Get a grip....
The remark is true. Narrowminded people tend to call others narrowminded simply because they disagree with them.
So, if Toose would have said: "Gotta love them peace lovin' Arabs!", that would have been bigotry? I definately think religion and ethnical background are "included" in what could be exposed to bigotry.
However, it is NOT bigotry to disagree with someone...it is not bigotry to disapprove of their lifestyle or religion. It becomes bigotry when you start making assumptions about them outside of their professed beliefs and choices.
The whole thing about racism is that you're judging people on their skin, and not, as Martin Luther King put it, the "content of their character." When you judge someone by their decisions and the beliefs they follow, you are, in fact, judging them by what you see as the "content of their character." There's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't start making assumptions beyond that, and as long as you don't start seeing others with similar beliefs as identical in your head.
), but I don't see what was so unpolite with that comment. If you put a christian fundamentalist in the same room as an islamic fundametalist and compare it to a room with a secularized christian and a secularized muslim. In which room is the risk of a fight or at least a heated argument the highest, would you say?
). I've learned that my way of debating is slightly different from the american way. You often try to keep a polite and civilized way when arguing and maybe I have mistaken that as a way of avoiding the real issue. At the same time I have been really surprised sometimes over how upset I have made people here when I really thought I was just presenting facts in a straightforward way.