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Originally posted by Team Sergeant The concept of ethnicity is as diverse as our world religions. I am merely commenting on a religious belief system, and not a diverse concept as ethnic origin or origins.
While you can mix race and religious beliefs they are not analogous.
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as single concepts, ethnicity and religious belief systems possess common properties, mechanisms which act on bodies of people (in geographical distance or proximity). The word "religion" has its etymological roots in the word "bind". I agree that it is belief which all religions are based upon, but I also recognize that many religions are inextricably twined with other binding factors, such as ethnicity, or economics.
If religion were merely defined by whether or not individual adherent believed in it, then we as a nation would not be able to say we are "at war with islam", as we (I assume) would strongly defend an individuals right to freely believe. The point is that institutionalized religions have emergent properties, and it is not absurd to consider ethnicity and/or economics in analysis.
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As seen below race is classified by biological means and not a simple religious based belief system.
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Race means skin color. There is no other accepted biological classification, and there are no "subspecies".