religious intolerance- is either intolerance motivated by one's own religious beliefs or intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices. it manifests both at a cultural level, but may also be a formal part of the dogma (doctrine thought to be authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted, or diverged from) of a particular religious groups. When a group specifically refuses to tolerate practices, persons, or beliefs on religious grounds.
race-belief that humans are divided into more that one race, with members of the same race believing they are superior or inferior to members of other races.
race- a recent idea created by western Europeans following exploration across the world to account for differences among people and justify colonization, conquest, enslavement, and social hierarchy among humans. The term is used to refer to groupings of people according to common origin or background and associated with perceived biological markers. Among humans there are no races except the human race. In biology, the term has limited use, usually associated with organisms or populations that are able to interbreed. Ideas about race are culturally and socially transmitted and form the basis of racism, racial classification and often complex racial identities.
racism-the use of race to establish and justify a social hierarchy and system of power that privileges, preferences or advances certain individuals or groups of people usually at the expense of others. Racism is perpetuated through both interpersonal and institutional practices
http://www.understandingrace.org/res...lossary.html#r
you can be born jewish, but deceide to convert to any other religion you please, but when your born form asian decent, you can't up and deceide that you were born of mexican decent, or if you were born of africian decent, then you can't deceide to say that well now, i'm asian. also, if you are a woman that is jewish, you can pass that on to your child. they too will be considered jewish. if your child is a male, then his children WILL NOT be considered jewish, but if your child was a girl, then her children will be considered jewish. was there religious intolerance, discrimination, or prejudice back in the day-yes. was there racism then?--i believe not.
