[lbo-talk] Re: Islamophobogenic NY Times coverage

BklynMagus magcomm at ix.netcom.com
Wed Oct 11 06:38:00 PDT 2006


Dear List:

Yoshie writes:


>Generally, the principle of non-discrimination has come to be applied,
if unevenly, to conditions that are held to be beyond individual choice: sex, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and so forth. But that is not the case with a matter of choice, and religion is thought to be a matter of choice unlike the aforementioned categories.

Religion is a matter of choice.

Whatever religion a person is born into, she always has the opportunity to reject it. A religion is an operating system and human beings have the opportunity (unless they have suffered brain damage) to adopt/discard operating systems as they see fit.

Is this process easy? No. But it is possible. And since no person is destined/determined to any particular operating system, criticizing the varied operating systems human beings have developed is a legitimate (and necessary) practice.

Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister



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