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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Did you miss the part where I was responding to a specific question?
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But you didn't respond to it.
My question didn't contain any question about, implication relating to, some sort of fantasy-world where criticism of religion is substitutional criticism of old white men. I suspect you'll agree, having read my posts, that I couldn't possibly care
less about engaging in that sort of thing. It was about why it would be problematic to apply criticisms of religion across the board, regardless of what ethnicity the religious people in question are. You can't steer your response towards claims obviously I wasn't making, or biases I obviously don't possess, in an attempt to avoid actually answering the question I actually asked.
The only thing in that post that was remotely on topic was this:
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A bunch of white atheists expressing contempt for the brainwashed fools (many of them indigenous) who persist in their ignorant beliefs has echoes of the same arrogance.
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Many of them may be indigenous, but many aren't, too. Hell, many of them are southeast Asian. It couldn't possibly make the least difference. Nor does it make any difference what my skin colour is when I criticize the Church. There's no "arrogance" about a rejection of dogmatism, any more than there's arrogance to insisting that two and two is four.