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In reply to the discussion: I am not religious. Can you please categorize Atheism into a "race"? [View all]herding cats
(19,565 posts)Faith or a lack of it, is a choice, and race isn't. Just because I was born into a lack of faith doesn't mean I have to follow such lack of belief when I reach my majority. I could potentially become a person of any faith I decide to embrace, or not. However, I was born into my race, I can't find a new one when I turn 18 just because I suddenly think my family was wrong in my race. It's set for me for my lifetime. Like it or not it's mine to bear. That's just a fact of our society. I can change my belief system, and our society supports that, but my race is not something I can ever have an ounce of control over. In that one area I am who I am and there's not one thing I can do to change matters. Ever. I am who I was born from.
What am I missing here? Are we obliquely speaking of culture? Or what? Because if that's the case then this is a serious oversimplification of the issues at hand.