Is anybody as annoyed as I am about how 'racism' is applied to situations where it simply doesn't work? It's like trying to use the term 'sexism' when hating gays, as in on the surface it may sound right but collapses when it gets a whiff of logic. We were able to create 'homophobia' to describe hating gays, so what about now?
Hence, I am hereby creating a new term; religiophobia-an irrational fear of, or hatred of, a particular religion. This is the term that should be used when referring to anti-Semitism or Islamophobia, because that isn't racism but a hatred of a particular religion. Judging by my readership, I expect the term to catch on in a century or two.
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