In your mind, are religious bigotry and racism the same thing? [Spirituality & Religion]

I ask because of the Muslim mosque shooting in New Zealand. I saw one SW member respond to a question about it, who referred to it as racism.

To my knowledge, there are only a few religions on earth, notably the Jewish religion, the Shinto religion, and perhaps the Hindu religion which are composed entirely of one race. Judaism counts descent from the mother as a qualifier for their religion, but there have been some notable exceptions and conversions, like that of Ivanka Trump and that of Sammy Davis Jr.

Is it not more accurate to refer to blind hatreds of the religious sort as religious bigotry?

Your thoughts?

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ManIsEatingEarthUpLikeCandy · F

I saw that post
and I thought before I think one thing or the other, I better read the definitions of the words race and racism and racial

4meAndyou · F

@ManIsEatingEarthUpLikeCandy And read the definition of religious bigotry. But more to your point, one SW member above did point out that the perpetrator of the shooting in New Zealand was in fact a white supremacist and that they have obtained his manifesto, and the shooting was, indeed (and very mistakenly) about race.

But I think it is very important to make this distinction. Muslims are not all black, and not all white, and not all Arab. They are a mixture of every race.