Is my statement bigoted? Why or why not?
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I'm sure I've seen that statement used by someone else about Islam, I believed it to be bigoted and false then and I believe the same about the context you've used it in. Whilst it may be true about some it is not true about everyone in that group so in my view should not be applied to the group as a whole 2
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It's stereotyping, it's short sighted, and it's incorrect. That's making the assumption that atheists insist on others being atheist. I personally am probably closer to agnostic than atheism but atheists I know think it's great that other people have religion, up to the point that they condemn those who don't share their beliefs. That statement also implies that atheists are the only thing responsible for starting wars and violence, which is glaringly wrong, as proven by the crusades, the IRA, the Ku Klux Klan, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Catholic Inquistion, the wars in Palestine/Israel... 1
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