Religion
In reply to the discussion: I am removing the content of this post and apologizing for posting it. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Why do the Christians get to be "lead dog?" Might as well call it "Christians and all you other less important religious assholes." That's how it comes across.
Why not just call the thing "Progressive people of faith?"
If you can't see how the very title of the group is de-facto exclusionary, I can't help you figure it out. It reads like the Christians are the bosses, and the other "Progressive people of faith" are the supplicants. Horrible name choice. Unwelcoming. How would you like it if your safe haven group was called "Agnostics and those other bozos who are not religious?"
Get out your dictionary--ghetto has more than one meaning. My meaning was deliberately evocative of where the European Jews got jammed when they were being discriminated against. It's not a smear--it's descriptive of a place where everyone of the same religion resides.
You're whining about your hurt feelings, while you call religious people's beliefs "nonsense" without any sense of irony and then try to change the subject to your poutrage over some idiots wanting to teach creationism in the schools (which is NOT the subject under discussion, but I see that desperate times call for pathetically desperate measures). I guess the only one allowed to be in a snit here is YOU. Thin skinned, you are, I see!