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Atheists & Agnostics

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11. It is not all that tricky. Religion is taught, ethnicity isn't.

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 09:01 AM

Oct 2014

Religion is an ideology. Excusing it by fact of birth is as wrong as excusing racism because one was raised by racists.

Affleck is not jewish.

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

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

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

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