Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumWhat is the word that means "bigot against another religion"?
How do I tag a RW dumbass who posts horrible things about Muslims? There is one polluting my favorite gardening forum. For Jew haters, we have "antisemite". That term has problems in it's origin, but it's meaning is clear enough to everybody.
So I need a term for "anti Muslim bigot" that can also be applied to people who hate on broader classes of religious identities. "Racist" is a good broad term for typical bigotry, so I need a parallel. These America-great-again types get their blood boiling with adrenaline hating on Muslims at this moment, but they are the sons and daughters of that American tradition of hating Jews, Catholics, Mormons, etc. One of their campaigns led to the assassination of a beautiful President. More on that later.
Ok, help me with the term. I thought I would post it here in the land of atheists because you would understand. Of late I call myself a skeptic, but I like to tell people that I am "an apostate Catholic". I have an upbringing that gives me license to apply my moral umbrage. Ooops, I am wandering. Good morning, good day, whereever you are.
JDC
(10,492 posts)Kolesar
(31,182 posts)That describes the horror that Saudi leaders are inflicting on the rest of Islam. Thomas Friedman wrote about that a few years ago. http://nyti.ms/1NbvygW
...It is not an accident that several thousand Saudis have joined the Islamic
State or that Arab Gulf charities have sent ISIS donations. It is because all
these Sunni jihadist groups ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Nusra Front are the
ideological offspring of the Wahhabism injected by Saudi Arabia into mosques
and madrasas from Morocco to Pakistan to Indonesia.
And we, America, have never called them on that because were
addicted to their oil and addicts never tell the truth to their pushers.
Lets avoid hyperbole when describing one enemy or potential enemy as
the greatest source of instability, said Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani
ambassador to Washington, who is an expert on Islam at the Hudson Institute.
It is an oversimplification, he said. While Iran has been a source of
terrorism in supporting groups like Hezbollah, many American allies have
been a source of terrorism by supporting Wahhabi ideology, which basically
destroyed the pluralism that emerged in Islam since the 14th century, ranging
to Sufi and Shiite Islam.
...
Thank you
Alpeduez21
(1,861 posts)All religions declare a need for intolerance of other faiths. That's the basic problem of religion. It requires intolerance. All this interfaith mumbo jumbo that leaders declare is so much window dressing. Underneath the veneer of acceptance is knowledge/faith that the other person is going to hell.
The closest term seems to be religious intolerant. Not very splashy but there you go.
True Dough
(20,362 posts)I notice there are quite a few forum members who qualify under that heading, but few use this particular group. Most post under "Religion" and debate with the "flock."
So you showed "faith" in your fellow DUers coming here! Glad it worked out for you, Kolesar.
Sectarian is a good option, as suggested above. Prejudiced also works in a general sense.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Because it probably won't work.
Or am I misreading this?
True Dough
(20,362 posts)So it's a safe bet you're misreading things.
Not sure what portion of my post threw you off. I am an atheist, for the record. Checked this group a while back and noticed scant posts going back months and months.
PJMcK
(22,898 posts)caroldansen
(725 posts)the Bible says it when He said 'you are as whited sepulchres filled with dead men's bones. '
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)I looked up your quote from Matthew and ran with it. I did a reverse search on the quote. Some of the writers obsess on the grave, but I see an empty carcass of a human without wisdom or empathy. I should tell the next guy that "people should love each other". That quote raised a few eyebrows in my depressing workplace when I said it last year.
Anyway, I ramble.
Brainstormy
(2,429 posts)Actually, if you're atheist or agnostic--and that's this forum--the notion of a being a "bigot against another religion" makes no sense. "Bigoted' is a loaded word but to my way of thinking, ALL religions are total nonsense. I'm bigoted against all of them.