Minorities and mental stress due to your religion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are seen or treated differently than majority due to your religious affiliation, does it effects your mental health? Does hateful comments by paranoid bigots and bots on internet sadden you? Especially if you are Mormin, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu, how do you protect your own and your family's mental peace?

Being an atheist doesn't affect my mental health (although I do feel better no longer believing in God), but I often don't tell people because they are shocked and some try to convince me to be religious again. I prefer to not to talk about it, except with other atheists and on line.

In contrast, there are people who seem to love telling others that they are atheist. They love seeing the shock in their eyes.

It's not the kind of thing that people expect in regular conversation. Even if they don't believe in God themselves.

Checking for that shocked reaction is easy way to detect dangerously mentally unstable people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get your posts. These are not equivalent questions.

Your religious affiliation is by choice.

Your physical identity and racial/ethnic background is how you are. No one has a choice in that.

You can change the first one. You can't change the second.

So it's ok to discriminate and be hateful to someone based on their religion? Wow, Randy Fine would be proud.

We will judge you be the content of your character, not the color of your skin. Sorry, not sorry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Judaism is more than a religion, it is a peoplehood. We are a nation. Jews are born Jewish or can convert to Judaism. Non-observant Jews are Jews. Observant Jews are Jews. Once a Jew, always a Jew. The best way to preserve mental health is not to read social media or newspapers and to stay off sites like this one.

Yes, you're so very special and worthy of all of the special treatment you get.

Which special treatment are you referring to? Genocide?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are seen or treated differently than majority due to your religious affiliation, does it effects your mental health? Does hateful comments by paranoid bigots and bots on internet sadden you? Especially if you are Mormin, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu, how do you protect your own and your family's mental peace?

Being an atheist doesn't affect my mental health (although I do feel better no longer believing in God), but I often don't tell people because they are shocked and some try to convince me to be religious again. I prefer to not to talk about it, except with other atheists and on line.

In contrast, there are people who seem to love telling others that they are atheist. They love seeing the shock in their eyes.

It's not the kind of thing that people expect in regular conversation. Even if they don't believe in God themselves.

Checking for that shocked reaction is easy way to detect dangerously mentally unstable people.

Not necessarily - even I, an atheist, am surprised when others say that they are atheist in a conversation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Judaism is more than a religion, it is a peoplehood. We are a nation. Jews are born Jewish or can convert to Judaism. Non-observant Jews are Jews. Observant Jews are Jews. Once a Jew, always a Jew. The best way to preserve mental health is not to read social media or newspapers and to stay off sites like this one.

One can choose to not identify as Jewish or Christian or whatever. It's not indelible.

Adolf Hitler would have words for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Judaism is more than a religion, it is a peoplehood. We are a nation. Jews are born Jewish or can convert to Judaism. Non-observant Jews are Jews. Observant Jews are Jews. Once a Jew, always a Jew. The best way to preserve mental health is not to read social media or newspapers and to stay off sites like this one.

One can choose to not identify as Jewish or Christian or whatever. It's not indelible.

Adolf Hitler would have words for you.

Adolf Hitler is dead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are seen or treated differently than majority due to your religious affiliation, does it effects your mental health? Does hateful comments by paranoid bigots and bots on internet sadden you? Especially if you are Mormin, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu, how do you protect your own and your family's mental peace?

Stay off the internet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Judaism is more than a religion, it is a peoplehood. We are a nation. Jews are born Jewish or can convert to Judaism. Non-observant Jews are Jews. Observant Jews are Jews. Once a Jew, always a Jew. The best way to preserve mental health is not to read social media or newspapers and to stay off sites like this one.

One can choose to not identify as Jewish or Christian or whatever. It's not indelible.

Adolf Hitler would have words for you.

Adolf Hitler is dead.

I didn't even know he was sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are seen or treated differently than majority due to your religious affiliation, does it effects your mental health? Does hateful comments by paranoid bigots and bots on internet sadden you? Especially if you are Mormin, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu, how do you protect your own and your family's mental peace?

Mostly I don't engage in weird debates about religion on anonymous Internet forums and I find that keeps me in good shape.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are seen or treated differently than majority due to your religious affiliation, does it effects your mental health? Does hateful comments by paranoid bigots and bots on internet sadden you? Especially if you are Mormin, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu, how do you protect your own and your family's mental peace?

Mostly I don't engage in weird debates about religion on anonymous Internet forums and I find that keeps me in good shape.

What would be a non-weird debate about religion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are seen or treated differently than majority due to your religious affiliation, does it effects your mental health? Does hateful comments by paranoid bigots and bots on internet sadden you? Especially if you are Mormin, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu, how do you protect your own and your family's mental peace?

I’m Muslim. No it doesn’t affect my mental health. I’m sick of fragile people who allow comments by strangers online affect them. There is a genocide in Gaza. People are being killed. And you cannot handle mean comments from strangers and bots on the internet.

[Anonymous]

If you are a minority religion or race then if anyone following same religion or race does anything wrong, all of you have to face backlash regardless of no wrongdoing of your own. You yourself feel guilty by association and defensive for no reason. Its no different than poor feeling insecure just because of how people treat them, even though its not their fault for not being born in privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a minority religion or race then if anyone following same religion or race does anything wrong, all of you have to face backlash regardless of no wrongdoing of your own. You yourself feel guilty by association and defensive for no reason. It's no different than poor feeling insecure just because of how people treat them, even though its not their fault for not being born in privilege.

YOU may feel guilty -- but please don't project your feelings on to everyone else. Others may not feel guilty at all. I don't.