You lost the point.
‘God’ and “White People’ are both inventions. (social constructs)
Atheists speak about ‘God’ as an invention that is bad for society, but never ever speak about ‘White People’ as an invention that is bad for society, even though there is much turmoil being caused by that invented concept today.
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This is all evidenced. The construction of the white identity is evidence. The turmoil it causes in society is evidenced.
The silence of Atheists on this issue is also evidenced.
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To rephrase:
If Atheists are against constructs that are bad for society, why are they not vocally against the construct of ‘white people’?
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If Atheists are against constructs that are bad for society, why are they not vocally against the construct of ‘white people’?
Who says they're not? Or, more specifically, what exactly do you mean when you say that atheists are, or aren't, against something? Whoever is in charge of atheism does a poor job of making their opinions known; I've never gotten so much as a note.
So wait? Are black people social constructs as well? What about asians? How could English ruling class people give everyone on Earth the concepts that racial differences exist hundreds of thousands of years before they themselves existed, since the Egyptians and Romans and Native Americans had words describing people of a different race? Even the Bible contains laws forbidding mixed race marriages and describes skin color. Unless you’re saying… Oh my god! The white conspiracy extends further than we thought! They must have invented time machines in the 19th century! HG Wells wasn’t writing science fiction!
‘God’ and “White People’ are both inventions. (social constructs) So God is an invention .
You said it, we didn't!
1. There are, in fact, plenty of atheists who are also opposed to racism. Like me, for example.prioritise opposing religion/religious extremism over opposing racism in their activism because they (for various reason) perceive the former as currently the greater ill/more dire threat in their society.because they are racists themselves - not holding one irrational belief does not make one immune against holding other irrational beliefs. Of course, these do not accept the notion that races are a social construct, and indeed, they collect cherry-picked data to make it appear as if science backed up their bigotry.argumentum ad hominem (“atheists are racists”) or the fallacy of relative privation (“don’t worry about religion, racism is worse!”), but it is a red herring either way. Even if atheists are guilty of not speaking out against racism enough, that has no bearing on the validity of their arguments against religion.
We didn’t lose the point, you didn’t have one in the first place, dearie.
I have a colleague who was brought up in Sweden’s Bible Belt, and has read the Bible several times. He’s now an atheist. He’s also a racist.
I’m an atheist, and I respect other people’s genuinely held beliefs, as long as they focus their beliefs on themselves. I’m opposed to people pushing their religion onto others, to people forcing others to behave in accordance with their religion. I’m also opposed to people saying “white people are like this” or “black people are all xxx”. I have little or nothing in common with MY SISTER; how the heck would all white people in the world be the same, when we two, sharing almost all genes with each other, are pretty much each other’s opposites? She’s extrovert, I’m introvert. She was popular in school with lots of friends, I had barely any friends and was bullied through most of school. She’s lean and athletic, I hate exercise and put on weight easily. And so on, and so forth…
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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