Posting a post from someone else on another forum that I completely agree with...
Did I miss something? Someone can come up with an absolute crazy notion:
“I don’t like black people. Black people are the work of the devil.”
And you say, hey guy, that’s a crazy notion, pipe down with that racism, this is 2010!
But the minute someone says, “Hey this is my faith, this is what I believe in” everyone has to back off and give that person some respect?
I don’t think so. Wake the fuck up people. Just because someone claims they “Believe” in something or has a “faith” doesnt make those ideals off limits for criticism. I imagine religious nuts everywhere don’t want their beliefs called into question if they don’t make sense, or pass the reason test. That doesn’t mean I don’t have the right to do exactly that.
Stupidity and bigotry is still anathema even if you cloak them in “faith”. You don’t get a free pass on a screwed up ideal just because you ‘believe’ in it. Sure, you have the right to believe in whatever you want to believe, and I have the right to call it dumb.
You can’t hide ignorance and hatred behind ‘faith’ and think you’re going to get away with it just because you cry about people attacking your ‘beliefs’.