for the slow kids at the back of the bus, i'll repeat myself again:

my opposition to religion is rooted in a stringent conception of social liberalism that rejects the authority of clerical bodies to make arbitrary rules governing the conduct of individuals. put another way, religion is fundamentally incompatible with democracy and must be monolithically opposed on those grounds. while religions may co-exist with each other, those that claim that religion may co-exist with freedom are either acting as apologists for tyranny or are too stupid to work through the dissonance and understand what they're actually saying and doing.

religion is never a personal choice and always a social one. religion does not act at the individual level, but at the community level. it follows that engaging in religion is necessarily engaging in a subversion of democracy.

the same social liberalism that leads me to abhor religion on civil rights grounds leads me to abhor racism on the same terms. race is not a biological idea, but a construct of the ruling class to justify the exploitation of whole classes of labour. as such, the concept of race has a lot in common with the concept of religion, and they should be opposed together. certainly, opposing religion in no way implies any kind of adherence to any concept of race.

there is consequently a deep consistency in opposing religion and race (or racism, same thing) at the same time, and a contradiction in opposing one while supporting the other.

further, this is a standard left-wing position that has been held by almost all leftists for as long as there's been a left.

please try and keep up.