Anti-religious dogma is not the same as racism or misogyny

Drawing false parallels, stretching metaphors, and general misinformation is the foundation for a lot of [obviously poor] arguments.

A few months ago there was a quasi-controversy about the choice of blogger for the John Edwards campaign. Basically, the blogger, on her PERSONAL website placed this quote as a preface to one of her posts:

Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit? A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.

There was much discussion about it at the time in the political blog world. I continually saw justification for her firing amount to nothing more than "her religious ["]intolerance["] is not any different than racism or misogyny". I say screw that. Personally, I found this hilarious. It pretty well sums up what she thinks about this particular religion, and, therefore, what slant you are getting when you read the rest of the post.

General skepticism for religious dogma and using language to show you don't appreciate the use of said religious dogma as an avenue to pass asinine laws is not even close to hating a specific group of people who have no choice in the matter. "Being black" or "being white" is not something you choose to do. Likewise with gender (this is where I acknowledge that transgender human beings exist, but generally speaking, one does not choose their gender). I can see a slight argument that a religion, in most cases is not chosen, but a religion can be chosen (and in my opinion, SHOULD be chosen, hence why I favor keeping religion out of the classroom), and therefore the merits of the argument of said religion can, and should, be debated endlessly.

To dismiss attacks on any religion, regardless of how offensive they might be, based on the language alone shows nothing more than fear of debating the actual merits of the argument. One should be able to look past any scattered f-bombs and get to the heart of the matter, otherwise, one will eventually become a recluse (or a Mormon) if they avoid everyone that drops an f-bomb every so often.

For some banter between myself and a person who condemned her comment and thought the blogger should have been fired because of something she says on her very own personal blog (and something which was a throw away joke at the beginning of the post for that matter), go here, or here, or here. I even included the ones where I make an ass of myself. But I think my point comes across as well as it can with the language we have available to us...

Also, this topic is quite dated, but I don't really care. I wanted to do a post about my anti-religious viewpoint and this is the best way to speak to it.