Which has been the more silly and destructive made up concept: race or religion?

[Somewhere For Me]

Because it's a social construct by definition, stemming from the human desire to label or categorize. Want some somewhat entertaining examples? Take a look at any thread about a mixed *Black* individual and see people struggle to decide whether the individual is mostly, Black, White, etc. The subject of genetics is a very complicated one. Religion though? One can't even fathom all of the flagrant things that have occurred as a result of religion.

A lot of people still seem to follow the archaic three races (Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid) ideology. What a lot of people don't know is that ideology is a deeply flawed one based on racism and pseudoscience.

It's particularly hard on Americans to understand because we never had a culture based on diverse tribal ethnicity like other places. Over here, whatever you "look" like, is what you get labeled with regardless of what your ethnicity or nationality is. We are more obsessed with phenotype and parentage than ethnic, national, or tribal identities/connections.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

? It's fact. Majority of the People of african descent can't digest diary as well. I never said there were africans who can't digest dairy well.
According to the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, some 30 million to 50 million Americans are lactose intolerant, including up to 75 percent of African Americans and American Indians and 90 percent of Asian Americans.

Majority of African, Native American and Asian civilizations did not subsist primarily on unfermented milk products as you proved with your link.

It's a genetic mutation/adaptation due to diet, not amount or type of melanin.

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[ice.]

For one race isn't a made up concept. It's clear physical and deep rooted bilogical differences between most of the non hybridized races. A boxer,poodle and chihuahua aren't all the same. They're all different breeds of dogs. If you treated and fed a chihuahua like a pitbull you'd kill it.

this doesnt makes sense if u apply it to the human race tho

 

[Drip Bayless]

The concept of race accompanied genocide, colonization, and slavery.

So did religion

 

[Drip Bayless]

Neither are good answers.
For one race isn't a made up concept. It's clear physical and deep rooted bilogical differences between most of the non hybridized races. A boxer,poodle and chihuahua aren't all the same. They're all different breeds of dogs. If you treated and fed a chihuahua like a pitbull you'd kill it.
And about religion contrary to popular belief religion has done just as much good as it's done harm. And it's not the religion, it's the people. If it wasn't for religion algebra, music, architecture, libraries etc. wouldn't exist. Not to mention most of the worlds greatest leaders followed some sort of religion.

The choices should be the concept of class. From class and wealth stems most of the world's problems.
Or humanities shytty self entitlement to subjugate the earth.

You are comparing race and species. The analogy should be a boxer is to a chihuahua as a hominid is to a human

 

[Drip Bayless]

That's all false. Manifest Destiny was nothing more than Imperialism. The Atlantic Slave trade was Imperialism suffused with Capitalism. The Holocaust was over money and land.

Less than 10% of ALL wars in recorded human history are directly attributable to religion.

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I mean at the end of the day of course you can't blame religion. As the numerous people in here who didn't know that race is a social construct have demonstrated, most of the misery of humans is caused by a small minority who know the truth and capitalize on it for greed, and the masses who are ignorant or too stupid to avoid being manipulated for such baseless causes such as "holy land" or "supreme races". So yeah this isn't a good question because neither is directly responsible but rather, both are just creations of an elite minority to manipulate the gullibility of the masses to work in their favor.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

I'd say race.
Religion will be gone someday.
People will always be divided, racially.

 

[Pazzy]

The very idea that race is a social construct is inane,and anyone mentioning that will be deemed as such..

If I were you, I would read up on the history of race, who came up with it and etc. You might be surprised. Race has more to do with upholding white supremacy. That's where it came from. It was never existent until the Europeans started doing their little explorations and shyt.

The answer to getting rid of white supremacy is by denouncing the idea of "race". There is no real scientific basis behind that shyt.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

I guess in a way, but if you look at human history, you see a lot of repulsive stuff that people used religion to justify. Terrorism, slavery, genocide, racism, murder etc..

the same can be said about race though.....

religion for all its faults can be used for good. religion is a blanket against the unfathomable, but race is something that will always divide humanity. nothing is gained and everything is lost....

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Religion will be gone someday.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Religion by light years because it is used to justify anything people don't give a fukk about finding shyt to explain.

 

[Misreeya]

That's a fair point... Maybe this should be in regards to blacks exclusively for sake of discussion

No, because it does not affect black exclusively, going to other parts of the world you can see that.

 

[TEH]

I hope any that black person choosing religion gets racially profiled on their way home tonight.

 

[Misreeya]

Let's take white and black people for example because it's easier and funnier that way. Contrary to the popular belief all humans aren't the same when we talk about the genetic structure of various people.
Now let's look at cellular structure of a black person and white person. White people have pheomelanin which has sulfur at it's core. Black people have eumelanin which has selenium at it's core. Why is this important? Melanin is a chemical key to life.
Melanin goes beyond skin color. All the cells in the human by require melanin to function properly. Knowing this we can move on to discuss about how pheomelanin (Caucasian melanin) has sulfur at it's core. This is why white people are able to digest, diary and meat better than people of african descent because sulfur is an acid. So right there that's one major gentical difference between races to refute your point. It's a lot more. If you respond be do so with sources of your information because what you said is scientifically wrong.

Sources.
Melanin: What makes Black People Black by Dr Llaila Afrika
Lactose intolerance seems linked to ancestral struggles with harsh climate and cattle diseases, Cornell study finds | Cornell Chronicle
Melanin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is why white people are able to digest, diary and meat better than people of african descent because sulfur is an acid.

For arguments sakes, maybe for people in the western world, or possible forest west Africans, groups such as the Maasai, fulani, Dinka among others do ingest milk as part of their normal diet,

Milk, meat and blood: how diet drives natural selection in the Maasai

 

[I Got Werk]

Nationality and nationalism is a made up concept. It creates loyalty and union in times of conflict and an artificial difference from others.

For example, most latin american countries speak the same language, have the same ancestors, values, cultural heritage etc but they still go against each other all the time. If people would realize they're basically the same this would not be sustainable.

I'd compare nationalism instead of race with religion