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elias7

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8. Race to religion is tricky in the ethnic religions of Judaism and Hinduism

Reply to PeaceNikki (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 06:58 AM

Oct 2014

One is born a Jew or a Hindu and there is an ethnicity attached to it. One confesses Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, i.e. anyone can join. I can see difficulty separating religion with race or ethnicity in the former group. And if you are a Jew (I'm guessing affleck is (?)), it may be hard to separate the religion from the ethnicity, even for confessed religions.

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What Ben Affleck missed in the Islamophobia debate [View all] PeaceNikki Oct 2014 OP

Kicking to read later, but the exceprt seemed rational and reasonable. arcane1 Oct 2014 #1

Most people are nice and don't want the "bad bits" of their residence's prevailing valerief Oct 2014 #2

Exactly. Plenty of strong liberals are not afraid of criticizing the religious right for injecting PeaceNikki Oct 2014 #3

I think "not the will of the majority" is wishful thinking in many cases. Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #10

I just find it ridiculous when DUers accuse those critical of Islam of spreading RW rhetoric. PeaceNikki Oct 2014 #12

Yo, some dude thinks you're a bigot for arguing against misogyny, hate, and violence EvolveOrConvolve Feb 2015 #14

Thanks! He missed this too... onager Oct 2014 #4

No you made a good point. Gelliebeans Oct 2014 #5

Pretty sure that was his point oberliner Oct 2014 #7

Fair enough, I could have misread that. onager Oct 2014 #13

I read posts here on DU that also conflate the issue. Duppers Oct 2014 #6

Race to religion is tricky in the ethnic religions of Judaism and Hinduism elias7 Oct 2014 #8

Ben was raised mostly Episcopalian. Irish/Scottish/English ancestry PeaceNikki Oct 2014 #9

It is not all that tricky. Religion is taught, ethnicity isn't. Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #11

I am curious to know whether Affleck would have said the same things to an ex-Muslim. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2015 #15