I fully agree that people should post elsewhere if all they want to do is bitch and moan about other people's religions, although it's often quite difficult, if not impossible, to debate religion without bashing someone's belief system. Most, if not all, beliefs people hold are in direct conflict with someone else's belief. No matter how tactfully it's put, any dogmatic statement will, eventually, offend someone.
We could surely eliminate this kind of crap by either holding a completely agnostic view (in which case these discussions just become mental masturbation) or we could accept all beliefs as valid (which they are in SOME sense)...and commence, yet again, with brain wacking.
Also...
Antisemitism utterly pisses me off (on two different levels). On one level, I feel that anyone who would judge any group solely by a shared gentic heritage is a complete fucking idiot...I really don't feel I need to go on about that. Any full grown adult who feels that way doesn't deserve an explanation of the stupidity of their viewpoint! On another level, why the fuck does everyone like to throw around the term "antisemitism" when dealing with religious issues. Semitic refers to a people, not fucking religion. In fact, there are (or were) a great deal of Semitic religions.
Judaism is a Semitic religion (but not all followers are Semites) and other religions (for example, the Caananite religion) was Semitic. Semite does not equal Jewish or vice versa. Please stop using the term "antisemite" to describe a person who dislikes Judaism.
Someone is not "antiarab" or disliking Islam (some Muslims are semitic people, and I'm not quite sure of the difference between "Arab" and "Semitic") and someone is not "antindian" for disliking Hinduism, etc. Do you see the ignorance of applying that term to religion?
I, for the most part, dislike Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Wicca, Buddhism, etc. (although I do find a lot of value in all of these, and other, religions), but I am in no way opposed to the ethnic groups who practice them--I have friends belonging to nearly every non-isolated faith.
Sorry, I'm done ranting for now.
Thou Art God...
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