One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
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It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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